Re: Parallel Seq Scan vs kernel read ahead - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: Parallel Seq Scan vs kernel read ahead
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In response to Re: Parallel Seq Scan vs kernel read ahead  (David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: Parallel Seq Scan vs kernel read ahead  (David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>)
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On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 6:15 AM David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com> wrote:
> With a 32TB relation, the code will make the chunk size 16GB.  Perhaps
> I should change the code to cap that at 1GB.

It seems pretty hard to believe there's any significant advantage to a
chunk size >1GB, so I would be in favor of that change.

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Robert Haas
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