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Update EXPLAIN wording for GEQO usage.
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$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/explain.sgml,v 1.35 2005/01/04 00:39:53 tgl Exp $
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$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/explain.sgml,v 1.36 2006/01/20 16:41:55 momjian Exp $
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PostgreSQL documentation
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Prior to <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> 7.3, the plan was
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emitted in the form of a <literal>NOTICE</literal> message. Now it
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appears as a query result (formatted like a table with a single
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text column).
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Genetic query optimization (<acronym>GEQO</acronym>) randomly
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tests execution plans. Therefore, when the number of tables exceeds
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<varname>geqo_threshold</> causing genetic query optimization to be
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used, the execution plan is likely to change each time the statement
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is executed.
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