On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Tom Lane<tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> "Kevin Grittner" <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov> writes:
>> You do, but it's been pretty rare in my experience, and we're
>> considering alternatives which give a lot less flexibility that this.
>
> I dunno about "considering". We've already wasted vastly more time on
> this than it's worth. AFAIR there has never been one single user
> request for the ability to partially constrain join order. I think we
> should do an enable_join_ordering boolean and quit wasting brainpower on
> the issue.
Patch attached.
...Robert