Hi Malcolm,
you are a committer :-). Nothing wrong with asking for a patch review,
but at the end you can just commit it yourself.
Btw, we do have generic tests for fetch limit, you just need to run
them against SQLServer:
http://cayenne.apache.org/running-unit-tests.html
Andrus
On Jun 18, 2009, at 1:17 PM, Malcolm Edgar wrote:
> Hi Robert,
>
> JIRA and patch below. This does not include an automated unit test,
> however we have been testing it successfully on our servers.
>
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CAY-1244
>
> 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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