Re: Proposed patch: synchronized_scanning GUC variable

Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com>

From: Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com>
To: "Jonah H. Harris" <jonah.harris@gmail.com>
Cc: "Tom Lane" <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, <pgsql-patches@postgresql.org>
Date: 2008-01-27T21:54:58Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
"Jonah H. Harris" <jonah.harris@gmail.com> writes:

> On Jan 27, 2008 3:07 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.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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