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From: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
To: postgres performance list <pgsql-performance@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Shouldn't we have a way to avoid "risky" plans?
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 13:29:17 -0700
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On 3/23/11 10:35 AM, Claudio Freire wrote:
>  *  consider plan bailout: execute a tempting plan, if it takes too
> long or its effective cost raises well above the expected cost, bail
> to a safer plan

That would actually solve this particular case.  It would still require
us to have some definition of "safer" though.

-- 
                                  -- Josh Berkus
                                     PostgreSQL Experts Inc.
                                     http://www.pgexperts.com



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