pg_hint_plan

Overview

PGDG 1st Party Extension: pg_hint_plan : Give PostgreSQL ability to manually force some decisions in execution plans.

Information

• Extension ID: 2820
• Extension Name: pg_hint_plan
• Package Name: pg_hint_plan
• Category: FEAT
• License: BSD 3
• Website: https://github.com/ossc-db/pg_hint_plan
• Language: C
• Extra Tags: N/A
• Comment: N/A

Metadata

• Latest Version: 1.7.0
• Postgres Support: 17,16,15,14,13
• Need Load: Shared library do not need explicit loading
• Need DDL: Need CREATE EXTENSION DDL
• Relocatable: Can be installed into other schemas
• Trusted: Untrusted, Require Superuser to Create
• Schemas: hint_plan
• Requires: N/A

RPM / DEB

• RPM Repo: PGDG
• RPM Name: pg_hint_plan_$v*
• RPM Ver : 1.7.0
• RPM Deps: N/A
• DEB Repo: PGDG
• DEB Name: postgresql-$v-pg-hint-plan
• DEB Ver : 1.7.0
• DEB Deps: N/A

Availability

Installation

Install pg_hint_plan via the pig CLI tool:

pig ext install pg_hint_plan

Install pg_hint_plan via Pigsty playbook:

./pgsql.yml -t pg_extension -e '{"pg_extensions": ["pg_hint_plan"]}' # -l <cls>

Install pg_hint_plan RPM from YUM repo directly:

dnf install pg_hint_plan_17*;
dnf install pg_hint_plan_16*;
dnf install pg_hint_plan_15*;
dnf install pg_hint_plan_14*;
dnf install pg_hint_plan_13*;

Install pg_hint_plan DEB from APT repo directly:

apt install postgresql-17-pg-hint-plan;
apt install postgresql-16-pg-hint-plan;
apt install postgresql-15-pg-hint-plan;
apt install postgresql-14-pg-hint-plan;
apt install postgresql-13-pg-hint-plan;

Create pg_hint_plan extension on PostgreSQL cluster:

CREATE EXTENSION pg_hint_plan;