On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 5:29 PM, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:
> On 3/23/11 10:35 AM, Claudio Freire wrote:
>> * consider plan bailout: execute a tempting plan, if it takes too
>> long or its effective cost raises well above the expected cost, bail
>> to a safer plan
>
> That would actually solve this particular case. It would still require
> us to have some definition of "safer" though.
In my head, safer = better worst-case performance.