Re: Re: [HACKERS] How embarrassing: optimization of a one-shot query doesn't work

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Cc: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-jdbc(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Re: [HACKERS] How embarrassing: optimization of a one-shot query doesn't work
Date: 2008-04-01 05:35:24
Message-ID: 20874.1207028124@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> If anyone squawks we could think about a
>> faster update ...

> That assumes that someone working on using the planner hooks will read
> this thread - which might be reasonable - I guess they number of likely
> users is fairly small. But if they might miss it then it would be best
> to fix it ASAP, ISTM.

Well, it's not like we have never before changed internal APIs in a
minor update. (There have been security-related cases where we gave
*zero* notice of such changes.) Nor am I willing to surrender the
option to do so again. If there's somebody out there with a real
problem with this change, they need to speak up.

regards, tom lane

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