On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 10:03 AM, Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@postgresql.org> wrote: > > I have looked into your patch and am a little bit worried because it > calls RelationGetNumberOfBlocks() which is an expensive function. > I think there are two ways to avoid it. > > 1) fall back to your former patch. However it may break existing > behavior what you said. I think there's very little chance it > actually happens because IndexBuildHeapRangeScan() is only used by > brin (I confirmed this). But Alvaro said some patches may be it's > customers. Robert, Amit, Can you please confirm this? >
In earlier version of parallel_seqscan patch, heap_setscanlimits() was being
used, but now altogether a different mechanism is used.
