Re: disabling seq scans

On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, Marcus Andree S. Magalhaes wrote:

> Last one... This time, specifically to the java side: what
> do you think about adding new methods, say, setEnableSeqScan(boolean)
> and getEnableSeqScan() to our (by our I mean
> postgres) drivers?
>

I don't see this as a useful general purpose method worth adding.  What
about all the other GUC parameters?  There was a discussion a while ago
about making these and other variables configurable through the connection
URL or datasource, but that would be to establish defaults, not to modify
it on the fly.

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-jdbc/2004-02/msg00022.php

Kris Jurka