On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 20:38 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Also, I really think it's a pretty bad idea to make index cost
>> estimation depend on the current state of the index's pending list
>> --- that state seems far too transient to base plan choices on.
>
> I'm confused by this. Don't we want to base the plan choice on the most
> current data, even if it is transient?
>
> Regards,
> Jeff Davis
Well, there's nothing to force that plan to be invalidated when the
state of the pending list changes, is there?
...Robert