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geqo_generations
Controls the number of generations used by GEQO, that is the number of iterations of the algorithm. It must be at least one, and useful values are in the same range as the pool size. If it is set to zero (the default setting) then a suitable value is chosen based on geqo_pool_size.
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- boot val
- 0
- category
- Query Tuning / Genetic Query Optimizer
- context
- user
- documented
- true
- enumvals
- Unknown
- extra desc
- 0 means use a suitable default value.
- lang
- en
- max val
- 2147483647
- metadata version
- 18
- min val
- 0
- name
- geqo_generations
- short desc
- GEQO: number of iterations of the algorithm.
- source
- pg-settings-source-snapshot
- unit
- Unknown
- vartype
- integer
Definition PG 18
Controls the number of generations used by GEQO, that is the number of iterations of the algorithm. It must be at least one, and useful values are in the same range as the pool size. If it is set to zero (the default setting) then a suitable value is chosen based on geqo_pool_size.
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