Re: SELECT Query taking 200 ms on PostgreSQL compared to 4 ms on Oracle after migration.

On Sat, Apr 3, 2021 at 11:39:19AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> > On Sat, Apr 3, 2021 at 08:38:18PM +0530, aditya desai wrote:
> >> Yes, force_parallel_mode is on. Should we set it off?
>
> > Yes. I bet someone set it without reading our docs:
>
> > https://www.postgresql.org/docs/13/runtime-config-query.html#RUNTIME-CONFIG-QUERY-OTHER
>
> > --> Allows the use of parallel queries for testing purposes even in cases
> > --> where no performance benefit is expected.
>
> > We might need to clarify this sentence to be clearer it is _only_ for
> > testing.
>
> I wonder why it is listed under planner options at all, and not under
> developer options.

I was kind of surprised by that myself since I was working on a blog
entry about from_collapse_limit and join_collapse_limit. I think moving
it makes sense.

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