From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>, Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, "Jonah H(dot) Harris" <jonah(dot)harris(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: [PATCHES] Proposed patch: synchronized_scanning GUC variable |
Date: | 2008-01-31 01:33:33 |
Message-ID: | 200801310133.m0V1XXk20450@momjian.us |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> > I'm still not very happy with any of the options here.
>
> > BAS is great if you didn't want to trash the cache, but its also
> > annoying to people that really did want to load a large table into
> > cache. However we set it, we're going to have problems because not
> > everybody has the same database.
>
> That argument leads immediately to the conclusion that you need
> per-table control over the behavior. Which maybe you do, but it's
> far too late to be proposing it for 8.3. We should put this whole
> area of more-control-over-BAS-and-syncscan on the TODO agenda.
Another question --- why don't we just turn off synchronized_seqscans
when we do COPY TO? That would fix pg_dump and be transparent.
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Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> http://momjian.us
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