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I just ran across this in a document that discusses why one should use a
particular procedure to get the best performance from a database query;
it just goes to show that some programs are more anthropomorphic than
others: "This can almost be though of as an act of desperation by the
optimizer." It gives a whole new meaning to help messages.
