> I completely agree that it's much better *in the long run* to improve
> the planner and the statistics system so that we don't need hints. But
> there's been no plan put forward for how to do that, which means we
also
> have no idea when some of these problems will be resolved. If someone
> comes
> -Original Message-
> From: Jeff Davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, October 13, 2006 1:00 PM
> To: Alvaro Herrera
> Cc: Bucky Jordan; josh@agliodbs.com; Jim C. Nasby; pgsql-
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] [PERFORM] Hints proposal
>
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> > Well, one nice thing about the per-query method is you can post
before
> > and after EXPLAIN ANALYZE along with the hints.
>
> One bad thing is that application designers will tend to use the hint,
fix
> the immediate issue, and never report a problem at all. And query
hints
> would not be co
