(functional-limitations)=
The planner does not try to consider joining order for FROM clause entries
more than from_collapse_limit
. pg_hint_plan
cannot affect the joining
order in this case.
Planner chooses any executable plans when the enforced plan cannot be executed:
FULL OUTER JOIN
to use nested loop.- Use of indexes that do not have columns used in quals.
- TID scans for queries without ctid conditions.
ECPG removes comments in queries written as embedded SQLs so hints cannot
be passed to it. The only exception EXECUTE
, that passes the query string
to the server as-is. The hint table can be used in the case.
When compute_query_id
is enabled, PostgreSQL generates a query ID,
ignoring comments. Hence, queries with different hints, still written
the same way, may compute the same query ID.