> people who use hints seldom report the query problem to the project This statement is shockingly user-hostile and paints the users overall as selfish and uni

> people who use hints seldom report the query problem to the project This statement is shockingly user-hostile and paints the users overall as selfish and uninterested in the improvement of the postgresql project. Certainly some users will use their hint and go home, but you can't know that this would result in a net decrease in performance reports. Maybe with hints different users would be empowered to submit more reports like "The query planner creates a slow plan for query X, I know because when I use hint Z it's faster". Not implementing hints just to spite selfish users while ignoring the potential additional reports submitted by different caring users is shortsighted and antisocial. Maybe there are a bunch of good reasons why hints should not be implemented, but this is not one of them. My past commentary: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29987139 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29987139