Re: Make tuples_per_page pr. table configureable.

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Itagaki Takahiro <itagaki(dot)takahiro(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Jesper Krogh <jesper(at)krogh(dot)cc>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Make tuples_per_page pr. table configureable.
Date: 2010-09-22 10:24:43
Message-ID: AANLkTimXjt4o0Dub+ZsS_GSj=vBc+DMH-hr05atOvNCj@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 10:33 PM, Itagaki Takahiro
<itagaki(dot)takahiro(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> I didn't read previous discussions, but did we have consensus that "number
> of tuples" is better than other units for the parameter? For example,
> "threshold bytes" or "percentage in a page" also seems to be reasonable for me.

I think either of those is more intuitive than tuples per page, and
especially the first. But I'm not sure that's really the knob we want
either. I feel like what people are really trying to tune here is
more like - if a single datum is larger than X bytes, push it out.

But I might be all wet.

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Robert Haas
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The Enterprise Postgres Company

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