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ossc-db / pg_hint_plan

pg_hint_plan

Extension adding support for optimizer hints in PostgreSQL

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Extension adding support for optimizer hints in PostgreSQL

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HN mentions by year17 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2019-10-28 14:52:28 UTC to 2025-07-05 12:21:34 UTC.

02462019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 2 submissions, 4 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 1 submissions, 4 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025

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20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC624
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC514
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

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ants_a·Oct 28, 2019
There is one implementation of hints available as an extension: https://github.com/ossc-db/pg_hint_plan It's unfortunate that it comes off as if maintainers think planner is good enough, because that is demonstrably not true. And from my discussions there is wide agreement that the planner will never be perfect. But agreeing that it's something that needs work is not enough, someone actually has to do the work too. Reality is that implementing any feature to PostgreSQL quality standards is hard work.
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