> > Another thing that this brings up is "hints" to a query. Over the
> > years, I have run into situation where the planner wasn't
> great. It
> > would be nice to try forcing different strategies on the
> planner and
> > see if performance caan be improved.
> >
>
> you can do this by setting enable_"access_method" type parameters.
No, not generally. Usual problems include join order and wrong index,
not only wrong access method.
Andreas