Robert Haas <[email protected]> writes:
> I think the only part of this that would be really brutal to try to
> represent is alternative join orders. I see no reasonable way for
> EXPLAIN to output useful information about what other join orders were
> considered and why they were not chosen; the only thing that seems
> like it would help in that case would be an easy way to force the
> exact join order you want and then see what the plan looks like.
That exists today: write your query as a nest of explicit JOIN syntax
and set join_collapse_limit = 1. Not sure that it's really all that
useful, though.
regards, tom lane
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