On Wed, Jun 03, 2020 at 06:23:57PM -0400, Philip Semanchuk wrote:
> > On Jun 3, 2020, at 5:15 PM, Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com> wrote:
> > What version postgres ?
>
> This is AWS’ version of Postgres 11.6 (“Aurora”) which of course might make a difference.
> > I guess you should show an explain analyze, specifically "Workers
> > Planned/Launched", maybe by linking to explain.depesz.com
>
> Out of an abundance of caution, our company has a policy of not pasting our plans to public servers. However, I can
confirmthat when I set max_parallel_workers_per_gather > 4 and the runtime increases, this is what’s in the EXPLAIN
ANALYZEoutput:
>
> Workers Planned: 1
> Workers Launched: 1
Are you referring to a parallel scan/aggregate/hash/??
Are you able to show a plan for a toy query like SELECT count(col) FROM tbl ,
preferably including a CREATE TABLE tbl AS... ; VACUUM ANALYZE tbl;
Are you able to reproduce with an unpatched postgres ?
--
Justin