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Mike Matrigali updated DERBY-1506: ---------------------------------- The following approach was suggested by [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maybe a simple fix would be to segment the pages in the container. Store the relational information in the pages at the "top" of the container, and a reference to the first page of "Blob space". Then each row would then store a reference to the blob pages that are relative to the start of the Blobspace. I wouldn't call this a bug per se, but a design issue. I would suggest opening up a JIRA case to focus on the data storage rather than the optimizer. Clearly Derby's storage of Blobs is inefficient. So, the key would be to make improvements on Derby's storage, that would have minimal impact on existing implementations. If we extend the container concept to be more intelligent about the data and its pages in the "table", we can greatly improve performance. By segmenting the blobs away from the rest of the table data, we could increase the efficiency of the table, with the only sacrifice being an extra jump to get to the front of the blob. (Relatively speaking, this cost would be minimal considering that we're talking about blobs that for the most part span multiple pages. > full table scans of tables which don't use indexes, which have blobs, but > don't reference blob data still read all pages of the table > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: DERBY-1506 > URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-1506 > Project: Derby > Type: Improvement > Components: Store > Versions: 10.1.3.1 > Reporter: Mike Matrigali > Priority: Minor > > A full table scan that does not use an index always reads every allocated > page of the table through the cache. In two cases > this means logically it reads more data that necessary: long rows (where the > head columns span multiple pages) and long columns > (columns where the data in a single column spans multiple pages). In both > these cases the space for the "overflow" portion of the > row or column is currently stored in the same space as the regular "main" > pages. The current implementation of a table scan of > a heap container is to call raw store to give it a linear list of main pages > with rows, raw store conglomerate implementations step through each allocated > page in the container and returns the "main" pages (reading the overflow > pages into cache, identifying them, and skipping them) > the access layer which then returns rows as requested to the query processing > layer. > If a table contains rows with very long columns (ie. 2gig blobs), and the > tablescan does not request the blob data then a lot of data > is read from disk but not required by the query. > A more unusual case is a table scan on requiring a few columns from a table > made up of 2 gig rows made up of all less than 32k columns., > in this case also derby will read all pages as part of a tablescan even if > only the first column is the only required column of the chain. > Note that this is only a problem in tablescan of heap tables. In both cases > if an index is used to get the row, then ONLY the required data is > read from disk. In the long column case the main row has only a pointer to > the overflow chain for the blob and it will not be read unless the > blob data is required. In the long row case data, columns appear in the > container in the order they are created in the original "create table" > statement. Data is read from disk into cache for all columns from the 1st up > to the "last" one referenced in the query. Data objects are only > instantiated from the cache data for the columns referenced in the query. > I have marked this low in priority as I believe that full, unindexed tables > scans of tables with gigabyte blobs are not the normal case. Seems like most > applications would do keyed lookups of the table. But there may be apps > that need to > do full table reporting on the non'-blob data in such a table. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: http://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/Administrators.jspa - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira
