Re: Parallel sec scan in plpgsql

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Alex Ignatov <a(dot)ignatov(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>, Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh(dot)bapat(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Parallel sec scan in plpgsql
Date: 2016-09-20 15:01:17
Message-ID: CA+TgmoY_uNECNPX1BaC-zOpFocaEoSThaeqVMmGvDV18k2j+eA@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 9:24 AM, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> I think here point is that for any case where there is count of rows
> to be selected, we disable parallelism. There are many genuine cases
> like select count(*) into cnt ... which will run to completion, but as
> plpgsql passes row count to be 1 or 2, it doesn't enter parallel mode.
> There are couple other cases like that. Do you see a reason for not
> enabling parallelism for such cases?

If we can somehow know that the rowcount which is passed is greater
than or equal to the actual number of rows which will be generated,
then it's fine to enable parallelism.

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Robert Haas
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