Re: Parallel Seq Scan

On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 10:41 PM, Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com> wrote:
> I think whats going on here is that when any of the session doesn't
> get any workers, we shutdown the Gather node which internally destroys
> the dynamic shared memory segment as well.  However the same is
> needed as per current design for doing scan by master backend as
> well.  So I think the fix would be to just do shutdown of workers which
> actually won't do anything in this scenario.

It seems silly to call ExecGatherShutdownWorkers() here when that's
going to be a no-op.  I think we should just remove that line and the
if statement before it altogether and replace it with a comment
explaining why we can't nuke the DSM at this stage.

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