From: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: enable_joinremoval |
Date: | 2010-03-29 16:29:11 |
Message-ID: | 603c8f071003290929x3d36be21t848d2f7244c0cf5b@mail.gmail.com |
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On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 12:17 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 12:03 PM, Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
>>> at the top of my list in this area for 9.1 is to track down the rumored
>>> patch that exports information about the rejected plans considered and get
>>> that comitted. That always seems what I want to look at for answering the
>>> question "why this plan instead of what I was expecting?"
>
>> Having looked at that patch, I am skeptical of it, but we can
>> certainly take a fresh look.
>
> The problem with this line of thought is that it imagines you can look
> at worked-out alternative plans. You can't, because the planner doesn't
> pursue rejected alternatives that far (and you'd not want to wait long
> enough for it to do so...)
Right. And that's not what the patch did. But a detailed discussion
of this topic should be (a) conducted on a separate thread and (b)
occur after we've all refamiliarized ourselves with it.
...Robert
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