Am Donnerstag, 31. August 2006 15:05 schrieb Merlin Moncure:
> The proposal to supply hints to statements and functions has been
> voted down several times due to the argument that it is better to fix
> the planner. I think supplying hints does fix the planner, and is a
> balanced solution.
Planner hints are a way to address a deficient planner. But neither a
manually hinted planner nor a perfectly good planner will help if the
planning decisions are based on outdated information.
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Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/