Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2021 10:41:14 -0500
From: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, aditya desai <admad123@gmail.com>,
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Subject: Re: SELECT Query taking 200 ms on PostgreSQL compared to 4 ms on
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On Sat, Apr 03, 2021 at 11:39:19AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > On Sat, Apr  3, 2021 at 08:38:18PM +0530, aditya desai wrote:
> >> Yes, force_parallel_mode is on. Should we set it off?
> 
> > Yes.  I bet someone set it without reading our docs:
> 
> > 	https://www.postgresql.org/docs/13/runtime-config-query.html#RUNTIME-CONFIG-QUERY-OTHER
> 
> > -->	Allows the use of parallel queries for testing purposes even in cases
> > -->	where no performance benefit is expected.
> 
> > We might need to clarify this sentence to be clearer it is _only_ for
> > testing.
> 
> I wonder why it is listed under planner options at all, and not under
> developer options.

Because it's there to help DBAs catch errors in functions incorrectly marked as
parallel safe.

-- 
Justin