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From: Scott Marlowe <smarlowe@g2switchworks.com>
To: josh@agliodbs.com
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org, Denis Lussier <denisl@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: korryd@enterprisedb.com <korryd@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: Jonah H. Harris <jharris@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: Craig A. James <cjames@modgraph-usa.com>
Subject: Re: Simple join optimized badly?
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2006 15:30:59 -0500
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On Sun, 2006-10-08 at 18:05, Josh Berkus wrote:

> Now, if you were offering us a patch to auto-populate the statistics as a 
> table is loaded, I'd be all for that.   But I, personally, would need a 
> lot of convincing to believe that hints don't do more harm than good.

Actually, I'd much rather have a log option, on by default, that spit
out info messages when the planner made a guess that was off by a factor
of 20 or 50 or so or more on a plan.

I can remember to run stats, but finding slow queries that are slow
because the plan was bad, that's the hard part.



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