Monday, August 4, 2008

Re: [HACKERS] Mini improvement: statement_cost_limit

Simon Riggs wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-08-03 at 22:09 +0200, Hans-Jürgen Schönig wrote:
>
>>> Another alternative would be to have a plugin that can examine the
>>> plan
>>> immediately after planner executes, so you can implement this
>>> yourself,
>>> plus some other possibilities.
>>>
>
>> this would be really fancy.
>> how could a plugin like that look like?
>
> Hmm...thinks: exactly like the existing planner_hook().
>
> So, rewrite this as a planner hook and submit as a contrib module.

Now that's a good idea!

I personally don't think this feature is a good idea, for all the
reasons others have mentioned, but as a pgfoundry project it can be
downloaded by those who want it, and perhaps prove its usefulness for
others as well.

--
Heikki Linnakangas
EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com

--
Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org)
To make changes to your subscription:
http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers

No comments: