Re: Proposed patch: synchronized_scanning GUC variable

From: "Gevik Babakhani" <pgdev(at)xs4all(dot)nl>
To: "'Gregory Stark'" <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, "'Jonah H(dot) Harris'" <jonah(dot)harris(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: "'Tom Lane'" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Proposed patch: synchronized_scanning GUC variable
Date: 2008-01-27 23:09:51
Message-ID: 000601c86139$bc5b2860$0a01a8c0@gevmus
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> >> Per today's -hackers discussion, add a GUC variable to
> allow clients
> >> to disable the new synchronized-scanning behavior, and
> make pg_dump
> >> disable sync scans so that it will reliably preserve row
> ordering.
> >> This is a pretty trivial patch, but seeing how late we are
> in the 8.3
> >> release cycle, I thought I'd better post it for comment anyway.
> >
> > +1
>
> I liked the "synchronized_sequential_scans" idea myself.
>
> But otherwise, sure.
>

this will save some hackwork I have to do for a import/export project I am
doing.

+1, please

Regards,
Gevik Babakhani
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