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The effective_io_concurrency GUC and equivalent tablespace option were previously passed through a formula based on a theory about RAID spindles and probabilities, to arrive at the number of pages to prefetch in bitmap heap scans. Tomas Vondra, Andres Freund and others argued that it was anachronistic and hard to justify, and commit 558a9165e08 already started down the path of bypassing it in new code. We agreed to drop that logic and use the value directly. For the default setting of 1, there is no change in effect. Higher settings can be converted from the old meaning to the new with: select round(sum(OLD / n::float)) from generate_series(1, OLD) s(n); We might want to consider renaming the GUC before the next release given the change in meaning, but it's not clear that many users had set it very carefully anyway. That decision is deferred for now. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGJUw08dPs_3EUcdO6M90GnjofPYrWp4YSLaBkgYwS-AqA%40mail.gmail.com
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