From 4a651c97055c700259965f6aa71da68440a48663 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bruce Momjian Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 16:42:02 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Update EXPLAIN wording for GEQO usage. --- doc/src/sgml/ref/explain.sgml | 10 +++++++++- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/explain.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/explain.sgml index 748e7e16ae..dd1f07b40d 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/explain.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/explain.sgml @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ @@ -150,6 +150,14 @@ ROLLBACK; the query, and consequently an inferior query plan may be chosen. + + 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. + + Prior to PostgreSQL 7.3, the plan was emitted in the form of a NOTICE message. Now it -- 2.50.1