On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 1:24 PM, Metin Doslu <metin@citusdata.com> wrote:
> Looking into syncscan.c, it says in comments:
>
> "When multiple backends run a sequential scan on the same table, we try to
> keep them synchronized to reduce the overall I/O needed."
>
> But in my workload, every process was running on a different table.
Ah, ok, so that's what you meant by "independent tables".