> Having a mechanism that requires enormous DBA effort and where there > is considerable risk of simple configuration errors that will be hard > to notice may not be the best kind of "feature" :-).
Why not? It seems to have worked remarkably well for the market leader ;-) -- Scott Ribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.killerbytes.com/ (303) 722-0567 voice ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match