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Controls the tradeoff between planning time and query plan

efficiency in GEQO. Valid values for this variable range

from 1 to 10; the default is 5. Larger values increasee the

time spent doing query planning, but increase the likelyhood

that an efficient query plan will be chosen.

efficiency in GEQO. This variable must be an integer in the

range from 1 to 10. The default value is 5. Larger values

increase the time spent doing query planning, but also

increase the likelyhood that an efficient query plan will be

chosen.

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