Re: [PERFORM] encouraging index-only scans

On 09/06/2013 09:23 AM, Dimitri Fontaine wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
>> I'm not sure if we need to expose all these new maintenance actions as
>> SQL commands.
> I strongly think we should, if only for diagnostic purposes. 
It would be much easier and more flexible to expose them
as pg_*() function calls, not proper "commands".
> Also to
> adapt to some well defined workloads that the automatic system is not
> designed to handle.
+1

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