Hi, The code currently says:
* We can't use parallelism in serializable mode because the predicate * locking code is not parallel-aware. It's not catastrophic if someone * tries to run a parallel plan in serializable mode; it just won't get * any workers and will run serially. But it seems like a good heuristic * to assume that the same serialization level will be in effect at plan * time and execution time, so don't generate a parallel plan if we're in * serializable mode. */ if ((cursorOptions & CURSOR_OPT_PARALLEL_OK) != 0 && IsUnderPostmaster && parse->commandType == CMD_SELECT && !parse->hasModifyingCTE && max_parallel_workers_per_gather > 0 && !IsParallelWorker() && !IsolationIsSerializable()) { /* all the cheap tests pass, so scan the query tree */ glob->maxParallelHazard = max_parallel_hazard(parse); glob->parallelModeOK = (glob->maxParallelHazard != PROPARALLEL_UNSAFE); } afaict for deferrable READ ONLY DEFERRABLE transactions we could trivially allow parallelism? Am I missing something? Greetings, Andres Freund