Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes:
> On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 10:40 AM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> I thought the proposal to chunk on the basis of "each worker processes
>> one 1GB-sized segment" should work all right. The kernel should see that
>> as sequential reads of different files, issued by different processes;
>> and if it can't figure out how to process that efficiently then it's a
>> very sad excuse for a kernel.
> I agree. But there's only value in doing something like that if we
> have evidence that it improves anything. Such evidence is presently a
> bit thin on the ground.
Well, of course none of this should get committed without convincing
evidence that it's a win. But I think that chunking on relation segment
boundaries is a plausible way of dodging the problem that we can't do
explicitly hardware-aware scheduling.
regards, tom lane
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