Re: Proposed patch: synchronized_scanning GUC variable - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Gregory Stark
Subject Re: Proposed patch: synchronized_scanning GUC variable
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Msg-id 87hcgzrl1p.fsf@oxford.xeocode.com
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In response to Re: Proposed patch: synchronized_scanning GUC variable  ("Jonah H. Harris" <jonah.harris@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: Proposed patch: synchronized_scanning GUC variable  ("Gevik Babakhani" <pgdev@xs4all.nl>)
Re: Proposed patch: synchronized_scanning GUC variable  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Re: Proposed patch: synchronized_scanning GUC variable  (Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>)
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"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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