4 ms·
The reason for this appears to be that elegant solutions do not survive contact with the real world. When someone comes to you with an inelegant hack that make
by caf 14y ago
The reason for this appears to be that elegant solutions do not survive contact with the real world.
When someone comes to you with an inelegant hack that makes her database benchmark run 20% faster, you can either accept it and sacrifice some of your elegance, or your can reject it on elegance grounds and sacrifice some of your relevance.
- Evbn 14y agoInterestingly, Postgresql refuses to support query plan hints, a very popular hack on the Oracle world, because they insist if you can write a better query plan than the planner, you should teach the planner how to do it instead. Elegance in the long term over pragmatism of the moment.