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To: "Alice Lottini" <alice_lottini@yahoo.it>
Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org, pgsql-docs@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: looking for documentation about the optimizer 
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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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"Alice Lottini" <alice_lottini@yahoo.it> writes:
> Does anybody know where I can find some documentation about the PostgreSQL =
> optimizer?

Aside from the general info in the Developer's Guide, there are README
files in the source tree that you should look at:
	src/backend/optimizer/README
	src/backend/optimizer/plan/README
After that, start reading the code ...

			regards, tom lane