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[Gnumed-devel] some 1st cut proposed optimizations to emrbrowser


From: Syan Tan
Subject: [Gnumed-devel] some 1st cut proposed optimizations to emrbrowser
Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 12:11:32 +0800

I got a bit tired of waiting for the narratives to update so took a look into emr browser and

was able to get multi threaded narrative bulk retrieval working.

When a user selects a narrative node,

a check is made to see if the cache for narratives is empty,

if it is a fast query to get the narrative the user selected.

after that , a thread is started off to get the bulk of the narratives for the patient;

whenever the user is browsing another narrative, if the

cache is still not updated, a fast query is done. The thread is only started off once, because

there is reference to the thread object.

When the thread gets the narratives in bulk for a patient, it

constructs the narrative objects, and then with a synchronized access to the cache,

sets the cache reference for the narratives.

further user browsing would then get from the cache instead of doing a fast query.

    It could be argued that there is no need to have threading, as the user could

get only the narratives he views with the fast query. 

the fast query is a modification of v_pat_narratives, which uses v_pat_items , and v_pat_episodes,

so that the same data is returned in a similiar view with similiar names except that on

clin.episodes and clin.clin_narrative tables are used.

This avoids sequential scanning of all child tables of clin_root_items, which despite experimenting

with postgresql.conf , I was unable to turn off, and makes v_pat_narratives not useful for fast querying

on pk_episode keys.  

 In order to get multithreaded ro connection to work,  the loginInfo for the 'historica' service has

to be retrieved from ConnectionPool singleton object,  and  then gmPG.dbapi is used to create a new

connection and cursor, which can then be passed into gmPG.run_ro_query as the first parameter.

This allows the slow bulk select to run simultaneously with the intermittent fast selects.

I encourage anyone interested in emr design to take a look at gnumed , as it has some very educational

areas in it. 

 

 


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