At 14:14 31/10/00 +0100, Zeugswetter Andreas SB wrote:
>> 
>> Which is why I like the client being able to ask the 
>> optimizer for certain kinds of solutions *explicitly*.
>
>Yes, something like:
>	set optimization to [first_rows|all_rows]
>

That's one way that is usefull for affecting all subsequent statements, but
it would be nice to also allow such things in each statement, eg. in comments:

    /*++optimizer: fast_start, no_seq_scan */
    select...

ie. make all settable values dynamically settable in a statement. The scope
of the settings would probably have to depend on the abilities of the
optimizer - eg. how would subselects and views be handled?


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Wed, 01 Nov 2000 00:23:53 +1100
Philip Warner <pjw@rhyme.com.au>
Re: AW: LIMIT in DECLARE CURSOR: request for comments