Re: generalizing the planner knobs

On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 21:01 -0500, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> If we'd really like to avoid people using the knobs to rig queries,
> how about making them only  work with explain analyze, useful for
> debugging but not so useful for actual queries.

That seems a pretty arbitrary limitation. I agree that it's not ideal to
have users adjust planner behavior via this means, but until we have
something better, I think applying that limitation would only make the
status quo worse.

-Neil