https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=41921

--- Comment #56 from Katrin Fischer <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to David Cook from comment #54)
> (In reply to Katrin Fischer from comment #52)
> > I am not sure how it helps the load to run as a background job - it's still
> > the same query. Can someone explain what difference it actually makes on the
> > server side or what the big advantage here is?
> 
> There's a couple advantages that I can think of.
> 
> If you have a big query/long running report, it might take a long time to
> run, and if it's synchronous your browser could time out. 
> 
> Also, if you do execute a long running report and then try to page through
> it, it would likely be slow. Whereas if you're viewing the results, you
> could page through them fairly quickly I suspect.
> 
> A pro/con would also be that it captures a moment in time. The pro being
> that you could run a report and its results would be fixed, so you could
> rely on that report result again and again. The con would be that it would
> be stale immediately after running.

But that means it won't help with the situation where a long running query
creates load on the server.  The advantage is storing it, so multiple people
might use the results from within Koha.

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