Syntax options: ASYNC PREFETCH IS ENABLED | ASYNC PREFETCH IS DISABLED Specifies whether or not Oracle Rdb reduces the amount of time that a process waits for pages to be read from disk by fetching pages before a process actually requests the pages. Prefetch can significantly improve performance, but it may cause excessive resource usage if it is used inappropriately. Asynchronous prefetch is enabled by default. For more information about asynchronous prefetch, see the Oracle Rdb7 Guide to Database Performance and Tuning. You can enable asynchronous prefetch by defining the logical name RDM$BIND_APF_ENABLED.