On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 10:07 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> It's not about speed. It's about not forgetting to prefetch. Suppose
> that worker 1 becomes the prefetch worker but then doesn't return to
> the Bitmap Heap Scan node for a long time because it's busy in some
> other part of the plan tree. Now you just stop prefetching; that's
> bad. You want prefetching to continue regardless of which workers are
> busy doing what; as long as SOME worker is executing the parallel
> bitmap heap scan, prefetching should continue as needed.
Right, I missed this part. I will fix this.
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Dilip Kumar
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