"Robert Haas" <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes:
> OK, here's an update of Greg's patch with the runtime configure test
> ripped out, some minor documentation tweaks, and a few unnecessary
> whitespace diff hunks quashed. I think this is about ready for
> committer review.
I've started to look through this, and the only part I seriously don't
like is the nbtsearch.c changes. I've got three complaints about that:
* Doing it inside the index AMs is wrong, or at the very least forces
us to do it over for each index AM (which the patch fails to do).
* As coded, it generates prefetch bursts that are much too large and too
widely spaced to be effective, not to mention that they entirely
ignore the effective_io_concurrency control knob as well as the order
in which the pages will actually be needed. I wonder now whether
Robert's inability to see any benefit came because he was testing
indexscans and not bitmap scans.
* It's only accidental that it's not kicking in during a bitmap
indexscan and bollixing up the much-more-carefully-written
nodeBitmapHeapscan prefetch logic.
What I intend to do over the next day or so is commit the prefetch
infrastructure and the bitmap scan prefetch logic, but I'm bouncing the
indexscan part back for rework. I think that it should be implemented
in or near index_getnext() and pay attention to
effective_io_concurrency.
regards, tom lane
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