"Kevin Grittner" <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov> writes:
> You do, but it's been pretty rare in my experience, and we're
> considering alternatives which give a lot less flexibility that this.
I dunno about "considering". We've already wasted vastly more time on
this than it's worth. AFAIR there has never been one single user
request for the ability to partially constrain join order. I think we
should do an enable_join_ordering boolean and quit wasting brainpower on
the issue.
regards, tom lane