Re: Cayenne Fetch Limit behaviour ?

From: Andrus Adamchik (andru..bjectstyle.org)
Date: Wed Jun 17 2009 - 07:51:02 EDT

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    Robert is absolutely right - we have implementations for some
    adapters, and the rest are doing in-memory ResultSet truncation which
    is certainly not too efficient. I guess the craziest SQL that we had
    to generate to date was for Oracle in OracleSelectTranslator.
    SQLServer version should also be doable.

    Andrus

    On Jun 17, 2009, at 5:37 AM, Malcolm Edgar wrote:

    > Thanks Robert,
    >
    > I will look at writing a patch. SQL Server syntax is a little
    > different from other databases in that the limit is set after the
    > select.
    >
    > select TOP 20 customer_id, first_name from customer;
    >
    > regards Malcolm Edgar
    >
    > On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 12:20 PM, Robert
    > Zeigler<robert.zeigle..oxanemy.com> wrote:
    >> setFetchLimit has been around for awhile, you're right. But the 2.0
    >> behavior
    >> was, for all adapters, if I'm not mistaken, to do an in-memory
    >> fetch. 3.0
    >> added the ability to set the offset, and with it, added the option
    >> to set
    >> the fetch limit at the database level. But, as mentioned, this
    >> behavior
    >> isn't implemented for all adapters.
    >>
    >> Implementation in SelectTranslator:
    >>
    >> /**
    >> * Handles appending optional limit and offset clauses. This
    >> implementation does
    >> * nothing, deferring to subclasses to define the LIMIT/OFFSET
    >> clause
    >> syntax.
    >> *
    >> *..ince 3.0
    >> */
    >> protected void appendLimitAndOffsetClauses(StringBuilder buffer) {
    >>
    >> }
    >>
    >> MySQL adapter uses a custom SelectTranslator to do:
    >>
    >> ..verride
    >> protected void appendLimitAndOffsetClauses(StringBuilder buffer) {
    >> int offset = queryMetadata.getFetchOffset();
    >> int limit = queryMetadata.getFetchLimit();
    >>
    >> if (offset > 0 || limit > 0) {
    >> buffer.append(" LIMIT ");
    >>
    >> // both OFFSET and LIMIT must be present, so come up with
    >> defaults if one of
    >> // them is not set by the user
    >> if (limit == 0) {
    >> limit = Integer.MAX_VALUE;
    >> }
    >>
    >> buffer.append(limit).append(" OFFSET ").append(offset);
    >> }
    >> }
    >>
    >>
    >> The SQLAdapter, on the other hand, uses the default SelectTranslator
    >> implementation.
    >> Feel free to open an issue for SQLServer and supply a patch. :) I
    >> would
    >> write it myself, but don't have access to SQLServer, nor am I
    >> particularly
    >> versed in its dialect of SQL.
    >> But if you open the issue and supply a patch + tests, I'll be happy
    >> to apply
    >> the patch to the codebase.
    >>
    >> Robert
    >>
    >> On Jun 16, 2009, at 6/169:06 PM , Malcolm Edgar wrote:
    >>
    >>> Fetch limit has been around since Cayenne 2.0, and its not working
    >>> as
    >>> I expected.
    >>>
    >>> Stepping through the code its performing the limit operation after
    >>> the
    >>> query has been performed. For example a table with 100,000 rows will
    >>> be read into memory even with a fetch limit of 100. Then Cayenne
    >>> provides a wrapper around the iterator which returns only 100
    >>> records.
    >>>
    >>> This behaviour really needs to be documented, however more to the
    >>> point this is not what I would expect from an ORM I would expect
    >>> it to
    >>> use the database to set the limit.
    >>>
    >>> For example:
    >>>
    >>> // mysql
    >>> select col from tbl limit 20;
    >>>
    >>> // Oracle
    >>> select col from tbl where rownum<=20;
    >>>
    >>> // Microsoft SQL
    >>> select top 20 col from tbl;
    >>>
    >>> We are going to have to revisit a bunch of code after figuring
    >>> this out :(
    >>>
    >>> regards Malcolm Edgar
    >>>
    >>> On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Robert
    >>> Zeigler<robert.zeigle..oxanemy.com> wrote:
    >>>>
    >>>> I don't think the behavior changed, per se. Rather, setFetchLimit
    >>>> is a
    >>>> relatively new feature, and may not be properly supported by all
    >>>> of the
    >>>> db
    >>>> adaptors yet.
    >>>>
    >>>> Robert
    >>>>
    >>>> On Jun 16, 2009, at 6/167:28 PM , Malcolm Edgar wrote:
    >>>>
    >>>>> Hi Guys,
    >>>>>
    >>>>> On SQL Server we are finding that the setting the Fetch Limit on a
    >>>>> SelectQuery does not modify the SQL query, to set TOP or SET
    >>>>> ROWCOUNT,
    >>>>> so the database is not limiting the number of rows returned, and
    >>>>> it
    >>>>> appears that Cayenne is limiting the number of rows returned in
    >>>>> memory?
    >>>>>
    >>>>> This is killing our application with OOM errors. Did this
    >>>>> behaviour
    >>>>> change? We are using Cayenne 3.0M5
    >>>>>
    >>>>> regards Malcolm Edgar
    >>>>
    >>>>
    >>
    >>
    >



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