Re: why not parallel seq scan for slow functions

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com>, Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Amit Khandekar <amitdkhan(dot)pg(at)gmail(dot)com>, Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: why not parallel seq scan for slow functions
Date: 2017-11-08 13:18:41
Message-ID: CA+TgmoYCsXb+ZyzOKnLpJyfwNk4EXJ8hBoNme8uhdhZGZWtUfg@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 7:26 AM, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> We do want to generate it later when there isn't inheritance involved,
> but only if there is a single rel involved (simple_rel_array_size
> <=2). The rule is something like this, we will generate the gather
> paths at this stage only if there are more than two rels involved and
> there isn't inheritance involved.

Why is that the correct rule?

Sorry if I'm being dense here. I would have thought we'd want to skip
it for the topmost scan/join rel regardless of the presence or absence
of inheritance.

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Robert Haas
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