Re: Make tuples_per_page pr. table configureable.

Itagaki Takahiro <itagaki.takahiro@gmail.com>

From: Itagaki Takahiro <itagaki.takahiro@gmail.com>
To: Jesper Krogh <jesper@krogh.cc>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2010-09-22T02:33:47Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 3:44 AM, Jesper Krogh <jesper@krogh.cc> wrote:
> Command to set "tuples_per_page" is:
> ALTER TABLE <tablename> set (tuples_per_page = X)
> where 1 <= X <= 32.

The tuples_per_page means *minimal* number of tuples in a page, right?
A page may contain more tuples when the size of tuples are small enough.
If so, I think the parameter name is confusable because it sounds
*restrict* the number of tuples per page like fillfactor.
"min_tuples_per_page" might be better for the name.

I didn't read previous discussions, but did we have consensus that "number
of tuples" is better than other units for the parameter? For example,
"threshold bytes" or "percentage in a page" also seems to be reasonable for me.

-- 
Itagaki Takahiro