On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 10:33 PM, Itagaki Takahiro
<itagaki.takahiro@gmail.com> wrote:
> I didn't read previous discussions, but did we have consensus that "number
> of tuples" is better than other units for the parameter? For example,
> "threshold bytes" or "percentage in a page" also seems to be reasonable for me.
I think either of those is more intuitive than tuples per page, and
especially the first. But I'm not sure that's really the knob we want
either. I feel like what people are really trying to tune here is
more like - if a single datum is larger than X bytes, push it out.
But I might be all wet.
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