alt Hacker NewsWhat are you talking about? This has nothing to do with the article, which describes a query plan advice provider that solves lots of problems with typical hint systems, and does so in a manner good enough to be worthy of including in core, rather than throwing in a half-baked broken clone of Oracle because people are scared to install an extension.
> A Brief History of "Never"
> The Postgres community's position on query hints has been, shall we say, firm. The official wiki page on the subject states it plainly: "We are not interested in implementing hints in the exact ways they are commonly implemented on other databases. Proposals based on "because they've got them" will not be welcomed."
Are we reading the same article?