From 138fdf32bb306e0783c2d383d552d2dc65cd1f07 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bruce Momjian Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 16:41:55 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Update EXPLAIN wording for GEQO usage. --- doc/src/sgml/ref/explain.sgml | 12 +++++++----- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/explain.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/explain.sgml index 748e7e16ae..a9da7a19f5 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/explain.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/explain.sgml @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ @@ -151,11 +151,13 @@ ROLLBACK; - Prior to PostgreSQL 7.3, the plan was - emitted in the form of a NOTICE message. Now it - appears as a query result (formatted like a table with a single - text column). + Genetic query optimization (GEQO) randomly + tests execution plans. Therefore, when the number of tables exceeds + geqo_threshold causing genetic query optimization to be + used, the execution plan is likely to change each time the statement + is executed. + -- 2.40.0