On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 3:58 AM, Claudio Freire <klaussfreire(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Hash joins are very inefficient if they require big temporary files.
Hmm, that's not been my experience. What have you seen?
I've seen a 64-batch hash join beat out a
nested-loop-with-inner-indexscan, which I never woulda believed,
but...
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