Re: postgres_fdw vs. force_parallel_mode on ppc - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: postgres_fdw vs. force_parallel_mode on ppc
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Msg-id 20160304161418.GA701103@alvherre.pgsql
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In response to Re: postgres_fdw vs. force_parallel_mode on ppc  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
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Robert Haas wrote:

> I'm not sure if that's actually true with parallel mode.  I'm pretty
> sure the earlier workers will have terminated before the later ones
> start, but is that enough to guarantee that the stats collector sees
> the messages in that order?

Um.  So if you have two queries that run in sequence, it's possible
for workers of the first query to be still running when workers for the
second query finish?  That would be very strange.

If that's not what you're saying, I don't understand what guarantees you
say we don't have.

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