[Phpmyadmin-devel] "Display chart" and number of rows

[Marc Delisle]

Hi,
I'm getting familiar with tbl_chart.* to port the feature to jqplot. 
This "Query results operations>Display chart" feature was a GSoC 2010 
project and is documented at [0].

I just noticed that tbl_chart.php fetches the whole data set generated 
by the query and puts it into an array. Then, this is passed to the js 
level for chart generation. Evidently, the web server's process and the 
browser itself hit memory limits, even for medium tables 
(sakila.film_actor).

I'm not sure what the user expects when clicking on Display chart in 
terms of the number of rows, because, for example "Query results 
operations>Print view" only displays the current rows on screen (30 by 
default).

So I suggest to do something similar to what was done in Search>Zoom 
search: to have in the chart interface a control for the maximum number 
of rows, with 500 as the default value.

Comments?


[0] http://wiki.phpmyadmin.net/pma/Charts

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Marc Delisle
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