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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Jim C. Nasby <jim@nasby.net>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [PERFORM] Hints proposal
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 12:37:46 -0400
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"Jim C. Nasby" <jim@nasby.net> writes:
> Yes, but as I mentioned the idea here was to come up with something that
> is (hopefully) easy to define and implement. In other words, something
> that should be doable for 8.3.

Sorry, but that is not anywhere on my list of criteria for an important
feature.  Having to live with a quick-and-dirty design for the
foreseeable future is an ugly prospect --- and anything that puts hints
into application code is going to lock us down to supporting it forever.

			regards, tom lane



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