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Re: Proposed patch: synchronized_scanning GUC variable

Gevik Babakhani <pgdev@xs4all.nl>

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From: "Gevik Babakhani" <pgdev@xs4all.nl>
To: "'Gregory Stark'" <stark@enterprisedb.com>, "'Jonah H. Harris'" <jonah.harris@gmail.com>
Cc: "'Tom Lane'" <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, <pgsql-patches@postgresql.org>
Date: 2008-01-27T23:09:51Z
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> >> 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.
> 

this will save some hackwork I have to do for a import/export project I am
doing.

+1, please

Regards,
Gevik Babakhani
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