| From: | Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> |
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| To: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Kevin Grittner" <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>, "Robert Haas" <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, "Dimitri Fontaine" <dim(at)hi-media(dot)com> |
| Subject: | Re: *_collapse_limit, geqo_threshold |
| Date: | 2009-07-11 18:27:27 |
| Message-ID: | 200907112027.27404.andres@anarazel.de |
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On Saturday 11 July 2009 18:23:59 Tom Lane wrote:
> On reflection I think the best user API is probably a "geqo_seed" GUC in
> the range 0 to 1, and have GEQO always reset its seed to that value at
> start of a planning cycle. This ensures plan stability, and if you need
> to experiment with alternative plans you can change to different seed
> values. The "no reset" behavior doesn't seem to have much real-world
> usefulness, because even if you chance to get a good plan, you have no
> way to reproduce it...
I just realized doing it in a naive way (in geqo()) causes the state to be
reset multiple times during one query- at every invocation of
make_rel_from_joinlist.
Does anybody see a problem with that?
Andres
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