> Now wondering if it would be better to spend the effort looking at
> pg_hint_plan and seeing how hard it would be to get global hints added
> which are applied to all queries, and then add a way to disable use of
> a named index. (I don't have any experience with that extension other
> than looking at the documentation)
Regardless of what comes out of this thread, pg_hint_plan supporting
a NoIndexScan hint that takes in an index name, and not only a relname
is needed. I plan on taking that up there.
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Sami