On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 8:33 AM, Amit Kapila <amit.kapil...@gmail.com> wrote: > Is there any easy way to find out which way is less expensive?
No. But that's a separate problem. I'm just saying we shouldn't arbitrarily prohibit parallelism for parallel-safe functions. > Even > if we find some way or just make a rule that when an outer query uses > parallelism, then force function call to run serially, how do we > achieve that I mean in each worker we can ensure that each > individual statements from a function can run serially (by having a > check of isparallelworker() in gather node), but having a similar > check in the master backend is tricky or maybe we don't want to care > for the same in master backend. Do you have any suggestions on how to > make it work? I don't understand what's wrong with the existing logic in standard_planner(). -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers