From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com> |
Subject: | Re: Synchronized scans |
Date: | 2007-06-04 19:30:02 |
Message-ID: | 20070604193002.GY4779@alvh.no-ip.org |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> writes:
> > For the record, this patch has a small negative impact on scans like
> > "SELECT * FROM foo LIMIT 1000". If such a scan is run repeatedly, in CVS
> > HEAD the first 1000 rows will stay in buffer cache, but with the patch
> > each scan will start from roughly where previous one stopped, requiring
> > more pages to be read from disk each time. I don't think it's something
> > to worry about in practice, but I thought I'd mention it.
>
> Urgh. The answers change depending on (more or less) the phase of the
> moon? I've got a serious problem with that. You might look back to
> 1997 when GEQO very nearly got tossed out entirely because it destroyed
> reproducibility of query results.
What about the simple idea of just disabling the use of a sync scan when
the query has LIMIT and no ORDER BY, and start always at block 0 in that
case?
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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
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