Pg_plan_advice: Plan Stability and User Planner Control for PostgreSQL?(rhaas.blogspot.com)
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Pg_plan_advice: Plan Stability and User Planner Control for PostgreSQL?
http://rhaas.blogspot.com/2026/03/pgplanadvice-plan-stability-and-user.html
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Good to see some movement on plan hints in postgres, but I can't get behind the ergonomics of stashing plan advice via query ID. Comment-based hints can be declared in the application, which is typically when you will want to update the hints when modifying the query. It's just a much simpler workflow and one which has a lot of precedence in other DBMSs.
The infrastructure is intentionally pluggable to facilitate different viewpoints on questions like this. I hope we see various add-on modules pop up that fetch advice strings from various possible sources.