Re: Cost-based optimizers

From: "Luke Lonergan" <llonergan(at)greenplum(dot)com>
To: "Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>, "Christopher Browne" <cbbrowne(at)acm(dot)org>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Cost-based optimizers
Date: 2005-12-13 05:31:20
Message-ID: BFC39CA8.1675F%llonergan@greenplum.com
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Chris,

On 12/12/05 8:44 PM, "Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
wrote:

> assumption of five. Thus, being able to correct mid-course is an area of
> enhancement for query optimizers that IBM is pursuing."
>
> Hmmm dynamic re-planning!

I recently interviewed someone who is in the research group working on this
at IBM. From what he said - it seems this is pretty far from making it's
way into the production codebase. Apparently there is too much history in
DB2's optimizer and the perception is that the risk / payoff is too high.

- Luke

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