Re: Proposed patch: synchronized_scanning GUC variable

From: Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
To: "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 21:54:58
Message-ID: 87hcgzrl1p.fsf@oxford.xeocode.com
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"Jonah H. Harris" <jonah(dot)harris(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:

> On Jan 27, 2008 3:07 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> 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.

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