Apologies for the rushed question ...
If I have a function that is marked 'stable parallel safe' and returns
a table, can a calling function or procedure (marked volatile parallel
unsafe) still take advantage of the parallel workers from the first
function - as the data source. I.e.
func_a(); // selects, returns table, parallel safe
func_b() {
insert into foo
select * from func_a(); // Will func_a still execute parallel
workers to fetch the data?
}
Or even if func_b() uses 'create temporary table as select * from
func_a()' and then insert?
I ask because when I simply call func_a() from a psql shell, I see the
parallel workers run and everything is nice and swift. But when called
from a data-modifying function like func_b(), no workers are spawned
:( Even from the read-part of the code.
Are there differences in functions vs. stored procedures that might
affect the behaviour of the planner to disregard workers?
Cheers
Jim
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Jim Vanns
Principal Production Engineer
Industrial Light & Magic, London
