Package: postgresql-12-pg-hint-plan Source: pg-hint-plan-12 Version: 1.3.9-1.pgdg20.04+1 Architecture: amd64 Maintainer: Debian PostgreSQL Maintainers Installed-Size: 339 Depends: postgresql-12, postgresql-12-jit-llvm (>= 10), libc6 (>= 2.14) Homepage: https://github.com/ossc-db/pg_hint_plan Priority: optional Section: database Filename: pool/main/p/pg-hint-plan-12/postgresql-12-pg-hint-plan_1.3.9-1.pgdg20.04+1_amd64.deb Size: 131128 SHA256: cb7d237db8b7428d9b117babfe94e26892fbb511c32028ac7363c33c4fda5da6 SHA1: 23411d0c84143c90bb6b7cf6c5c70f87a484a280 MD5sum: 5fefa1b26cd27e1f8adea2b82fad6b0f Description: support for optimizer hints in PostgreSQL PostgreSQL uses a cost-based optimizer that uses data statistics, not static rules. The planner (optimizer) estimates costs of each possible execution plans for a SQL statement, then executes the plan with the lowest cost. The planner does its best to select the best execution plan, but it is far from perfect, since it may not count some data properties, like correlation between columns. . pg_hint_plan makes it possible to tweak PostgreSQL execution plans using so-called "hints" in SQL comments, like /*+ SeqScan(a) */.