[Phpmyadmin-devel] about MaxNavigationItems

Marc Delisle marc at infomarc.info
Sat Nov 10 14:23:16 CET 2012


Le 2012-11-10 07:44, Rouslan Placella a écrit :
> On 11/10/2012 11:35 AM, Marc Delisle wrote:
>> Le 2012-11-09 13:20, Rouslan Placella a écrit :
>>> On 11/09/2012 05:30 PM, Marc Delisle wrote:
>>>> Marc Delisle a écrit :
>>>>> Rouslan Placella a écrit :
>>>>>> On 11/09/2012 12:42 PM, Marc Delisle wrote:
>>>>>>> Hi Rouslan,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The default value for this is 25. I have a situation where the page
>>>>>>> navigator appears when I have plenty of space in the panel. The reason
>>>>>>> is that one of the databases uses a prefix and there are about 20
>>>>>>> databases starting with this prefix.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> So, it might be difficult to understand why MaxDbList is set to 100 and
>>>>>>> I don't see 100 databases on page 1.
>>>>>> Hi Marc,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The limit applies to how many items are fetched from MySQL before being
>>>>>> grouped and rendered, hence the issue.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Anyway, what if you had 1000 dbs in a group? Here, in order to be able
>>>>>> to show the next group (or next db), we would have to fetch all 1000 dbs
>>>>>> from the first group. The implementation of grouping at the moment is
>>>>>> not particularly fast, so in situations like this I would expect the
>>>>>> navigation to grind down to a halt.
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi Rouslan,
>>>>> I tried "100" in MaxNavigationItems and saw no delay; did you have a
>>>>> reason to put "25" in its default value?
>>>>
>>>> I mean, apart from how many non-grouped dbs would be displayed?
>>>
>>> I'm not too sure what you are asking here...
>>>
>>> Anyway, I chose 25 because it fits into an average screen without the
>>> scrollbar, which takes up horizontal space.
>>>
>>> That said, I think that I have an idea. How about a larger limit on the
>>> number of databases to be loaded into memory and a smaller limit on the
>>> number of databases to be rendered and sent back to the client? We
>>> could, say, load 250 dbs in to memory, group them and then render and
>>> display the first 25 dbs/groups.
>>>
>>> Sounds good?
>>>
>>
>> Yes. So, MaxDbList (default 25) would be used for the rendering, and
>> something like MaxNavigationDbLoaded would contain 250?  And no more
>> MaxNavigationItems?  (I find that "items" here is unclear).
>>
> 
> MaxDbList is for server_databases.php. While MaxNavigationItems applies 
> to all items that can be displayed in the navigation (tables, views, 
> events, triggers, etc), default 25. And perhaps 
> MaxNavigationItemsInMemory which would then default to 250. 
> MaxNavigationItemsInMemory would then apply to how many items which can 
> be grouped (dbs and tables) would be loaded into memory.
> 
> Makes sense?
> 

Sure!

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