"Jim C. Nasby" <jim@nasby.net> writes:
> One of the big problems with doing set enable_...=off is that there's no
> way to embed that into something like a view, so you're almost forced
> into putting into the application code itself, which makes matters even
> worse. If you could hint this within a query (maybe even on a per-table
> level), you could at least encapsulate that into a view.
You've almost reinvented one of the points that was made in the last
go-round on the subject of hints, which is that keeping them out of the
application code is an important factor in making them manageable by a
DBA. Hints stored in a system catalog (and probably having the form of
"make this statistical assumption" rather than specifically "use that
plan") would avoid many of the negatives.
regards, tom lane