Re: [HACKERS] Slow count(*) again...

Chris Browne wrote:
> Well, the community declines to add hints until there is actual
> consensus on a good way to add hints.
>
OK. That's another matter entirely.   Who should make that decision? Is
there a committee or a person who would be capable of making that decision?

> Nobody has ever proposed a way to add hints where consensus was arrived
> at that the way was good, so...
>

So, I will have to go back on my decision to use Postgres and
re-consider MySQL? I will rather throw away the effort invested in
studying Postgres than to risk an unfixable application downtime.  I am
not sure about the world domination thing, though. Optimizer hints are a
big feature that everybody else has and Postgres does not have because
of religious reasons.

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