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Controls the tradeoff between planning time and query plan
- efficiency in GEQO. Valid values for this variable range
- from 1 to 10; the default is 5. Larger values increasee the
- time spent doing query planning, but increase the likelyhood
- that an efficient query plan will be chosen.
+ efficiency in GEQO. This variable must be an integer in the
+ range from 1 to 10. The default value is 5. Larger values
+ increase the time spent doing query planning, but also
+ increase the likelyhood that an efficient query plan will be
+ chosen.
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