From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Timothy Garnett <tgarnett@panjiva.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Is it possible to specify minimum number of rows planner should consider?
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2020 17:06:51 -0400
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Timothy Garnett <tgarnett@panjiva.com> writes:
> Is there some way to tell the planner that unless it's guaranteed by a
> constraint or some such it shouldn't guess that the selectivity of a
> filter/anti-join is 1 row (e.g. minimum to consider is 2 rows unless it's
> guaranteed to be 1 row) or somehow otherwise make it more conservative
> around the worst case possibilities.
There's been some discussion in that area, but it's a hard problem
to solve in general, and especially so if you'd like to not break
a ton of queries that work nicely today.
regards, tom lane
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