Re: Why we don't want hints Was: Slow count(*) again...

Shaun Thomas wrote:
> Hilariously, I'm not so sure that's what the OP wanted.

Someone to blame as a scapegoat for why his badly planned project had
failed.  I've done several Oracle conversions before, and never met
someone who was so resistent to doing the right things for such a
conversion.  You have to relatively flexible in your thinking to work
with the good and away from the bad parts of PostgreSQL for such a
project to succeed.  I didn't hear a whole lot of "flexible" in that
discussion.

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