Re: ECPG FETCH readahead

Michael Meskes <meskes@postgresql.org>

From: Michael Meskes <meskes@postgresql.org>
To: Boszormenyi Zoltan <zb@cybertec.at>
Cc: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>, Michael Meskes <meskes@postgresql.org>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, PG Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Date: 2012-04-17T04:48:19Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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  1. Fix some "translator:" comments mangled by pgindent

  2. Make sure float4in/float8in accept all standard spellings of "infinity".

On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 06:02:34AM +0200, Boszormenyi Zoltan wrote:
> I listed two scenarios.
> 1. occasional bump of the readahead window for large requests,
>    for smaller requests it uses the originally set size
> 2. permanent bump of the readahead window for large requests
>    (larger than previously seen), all subsequent requests use
>    the new size
> 
> Both can be implemented easily, which one do you prefer?
> If you always use very large requests, 1) behaves like 2)

I'd say let's go for #2. #1 is probably more efficient but not what the
programmer asked us to do. After all it's easy to increase the window size
accordingly if you want so as a programmer.

Michael
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