> Zeugswetter Andreas IZ5 <Andreas.Zeugswetter@telecom.at> writes:
> > 5. Actually postgresql has behaved in this manner because of certain
> > "bugs" in the optimizer. Recently a lot of those "bugs" have been
> > identified and "fixed", thus destroying the defacto rule based
> > behavior.
>
> That's a real good point --- I think we've already heard a couple of
> complaints about the new optimizer doing "silly" things that it didn't
> use to do.
>
> I repeat my proposal: CREATE TABLE should insert a default size (say
> about 1000 tuples) into pg_class.reltuples, rather than inserting 0.
> That way, the optimizer will only choose small-table-oriented plans
> if the table has actually been verified to be small by vacuum.
OK. Sounds good to me.
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