Re: Parallel execution and prepared statements

> True, but we also try to avoid it whenever possible, because it's
> likely to lead to poor performance.

This non-readonly case should be way less often hit compared to other uses of prepared statements. But sure, it depends on the individual use case and a likely performance regession in these edge cases is nothing to decide for easily.

> I think it would be a good idea to come up with a way for a query to
> produce both a parallel and a non-parallel plan and pick between them
> at execution time. However, that's more work than I've been willing
> to undertake.

Wouldn't the precautionary generation of two plans always increase the planning overhead, which precisely is what one want to reduce by using prepared statements?

Best regards
Tobias