Re: index prefetching

From: Tomas Vondra <tomas(at)vondra(dot)me>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>, Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81(at)gmail(dot)com>, Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>, Georgios <gkokolatos(at)protonmail(dot)com>, Konstantin Knizhnik <knizhnik(at)garret(dot)ru>, Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: index prefetching
Date: 2025-07-23 01:19:20
Message-ID: 84269faf-d836-46b5-ab15-7ec26e76e8f9@vondra.me
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On 7/23/25 02:59, Andres Freund wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 2025-07-23 02:50:04 +0200, Tomas Vondra wrote:
>> But I don't see why would this have any effect on the prefetch distance,
>> queue depth etc. Or why decreasing INDEX_SCAN_MAX_BATCHES should improve
>> that. I'd have expected exactly the opposite behavior.
>>
>> Could be bug, of course. But it'd be helpful to see the dataset/query.
>
> Pgbench scale 500, with the simpler query from my message.
>

With direct I/O, I guess? I'll take a look tomorrow.

regard

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Tomas Vondra

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