Re: Parallel Seq Scan

On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 2:17 AM, Haribabu Kommi <kommi.haribabu@gmail.com> wrote:
> And also regarding the number of workers (16) that is shown in the
> explain analyze plan are not actually allotted because the in my
> configuration i set the max_worker_process as 8 only. I feel the plan
> should show the allotted workers not the planned workers.
> If the query execution takes time because of lack of workers and the
> plan is showing as 16 workers, in that case user may think that
> even with 16 workers the query is slower, but actually it is not.

I would expect EXPLAIN should show the # of workers planned, and
EXPLAIN ANALYZE should show both the planned and actual values.

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