Re: [PATCHES] Proposed patch: synchronized_scanning GUCvariable

> It's a good point that we don't want pg_dump to screw up the cluster
> order, but that's the only use case I've seen this far for disabling
> sync scans. Even that wouldn't matter much if our estimate for
> "clusteredness" didn't get screwed up by a table that looks
> like this:
> "5 6 7 8 9 1 2 3 4"

I do think the guc to turn it off is useful, only I don't understand the
reasoning that pg_dump needs it to maintain the basic clustered
property.

Sorry, but I don't grok this at all.
Why the heck would we care if we have 2 parts of the table perfectly
clustered,
because we started in the middle ? Surely our stats collector should
recognize
such a table as perfectly clustered. Does it not ? We are talking about
one
breakage in the readahead logic here, this should only bring the
clustered property
from 100% to some 99.99% depending on table size vs readahead window.

Andreas