Re: Choosing parallel_degree

From: David Rowley <david(dot)rowley(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Julien Rouhaud <julien(dot)rouhaud(at)dalibo(dot)com>
Cc: James Sewell <james(dot)sewell(at)lisasoft(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Choosing parallel_degree
Date: 2016-03-17 11:21:15
Message-ID: CAKJS1f-veM7c7hjQK-gqGXdPrWR5E=LeZ9qzUTAgje2T8RwvRQ@mail.gmail.com
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On 18 March 2016 at 00:13, Julien Rouhaud <julien(dot)rouhaud(at)dalibo(dot)com> wrote:
> With the current threshold, you need a table bigger than 8 MB to be able
> to force parallel workers. I'm not sure there'll be benefits for
> multiple workers on a table smaller than 8 MB, since setting up all the
> parallel stuff takes time.

It would be really nice if it were possible to drop the setting really
low, so that combined with a low parallel_setup_cost we could enable
parallel query on small tables in the regression test suite.

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David Rowley http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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