Re: Parameter for planner estimate of recursive queries

On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 4:44 AM Peter Eisentraut
<peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> On the one hand, this smells like a planner hint.  But on the other
> hand, it doesn't look like we will come up with proper graph-aware
> selectivity estimation system any time soon, so just having all graph
> OLTP queries suck until then because the planner hint is hardcoded
> doesn't seem like a better solution.  So I think this setting can be ok.

I agree. It's a bit lame, but seems pretty harmless, and I can't see
us realistically doing a lot better with any reasonable amount of
work.

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Robert Haas
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