Re: ECPG FETCH readahead

From: Michael Meskes <meskes(at)postgresql(dot)org>
To: Boszormenyi Zoltan <zb(at)cybertec(dot)at>
Cc: Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>, Michael Meskes <meskes(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, PG Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Subject: Re: ECPG FETCH readahead
Date: 2012-04-17 04:48:19
Message-ID: 20120417044819.GA9043@feivel.credativ.lan
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On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 06:02:34AM +0200, Boszormenyi Zoltan wrote:
> I listed two scenarios.
> 1. occasional bump of the readahead window for large requests,
> for smaller requests it uses the originally set size
> 2. permanent bump of the readahead window for large requests
> (larger than previously seen), all subsequent requests use
> the new size
>
> Both can be implemented easily, which one do you prefer?
> If you always use very large requests, 1) behaves like 2)

I'd say let's go for #2. #1 is probably more efficient but not what the
programmer asked us to do. After all it's easy to increase the window size
accordingly if you want so as a programmer.

Michael
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