Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 7:03 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> Wouldn't it be better if it just did the right thing automatically?
>>
>> The sort of heuristic I'm envisioning would essentially do "replan every
>> time" for some number of executions, and give up only if it noticed that
>> it wasn't getting anything better than the generic plan. �So you'd have
>> a fixed maximum overhead per session when the custom plan was useless,
>> and the Right Thing when it wasn't.
> Which is likely useless for my use case.
[ shrug... ] You'd better explain exactly why, if you want me to take
that objection seriously.
regards, tom lane