From: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
Reply-To: josh@agliodbs.com
Organization: Aglio Database Solutions
To: "Jim C. Nasby" <jim@nasby.net>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Hints proposal
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 15:57:23 -0700
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Jim,

> Well, that's not what I said (my point being that until the planner and
> stats are perfect you need a way to over-ride them)... but I've also
> never said hints would be faster or easier than stats modification (I
> said I hope they would).

Yes, you did.  Repeatedly.  On this and other threads, you've made the 
statement at least three times that per-query hints are the only way to go 
for 8.3.   Your insistence on this view has been so strident that if I 
didn't know you better, I would assume some kind of hidden agenda.

Stop harping on the "per-query hints are the true way and the only way", or 
prepare to have people start simply ignoring you.

-- 
--Josh

Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL @ Sun
San Francisco