Re: An Idea for planner hints

On Aug 15, 2006, at 12:26 , Peter Eisentraut wrote:

> AgentM wrote:
>> I've always found it odd that database didn't determine which
>> statistics are the most interesting from the queries themselves.
>
> The overhead of doing that on the fly is probably prohibitive. More
> explicit profiling support could be helpful, but that would seem a lot
> more complicated than, say, a compiler profiling tool that merely has
> to sort out the branch predictions.

Couldn't the session be explicitly transferred into a special
analysis mode? Explain analyze could run on every query implicitly
and point out time and row count discrepancies as HINTs. Multi-column
joins, for example, could be pointed out and display whether or not
there are related indexes.

Then, I imagine, I would regularly run all my app's prepared queries
through this analysis mode to see what I could improve. Who knows the
database better than itself?

-M