Re: Getting query plan alternatives from query planner?

On 04/14/2014 09:36 PM, Stefan Keller wrote:
> Who's the elephant in the room who is reluctant to introduce explicit hints?

Please read some of the previous discussions on this. Like this, in this
very same thread:

http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/15381.1395410811@sss.pgh.pa.us

I'd like to have explicit hints, *of the kind explained in that
message*. Hints that tell the planner what the data distribution is
like. Hints to override statistics and heuristics used by the planner.

- Heikki