Re: Parallel execution and prepared statements

On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 3:57 PM, Tobias Bussmann <t.bussmann@gmx.net> wrote:
> As the patch in [1] targeting the execution of the plan in ExecutePlan depending on the destination was declined, I
hackedaround a bit to find another way to use parallel mode with SQL prepared statements while disabling the parallel
executionin case of an non read-only execution. For this I used the already present test for an existing intoClause in
ExecuteQueryto set the parallelModeNeeded flag of the prepared statement. This results in a non parallel execution of
theparallel plan, as we see with a non-zero fetch count used with the extended query protocol. Despite this patch seem
towork in my tests, I'm by no means confident this being a proper way of handling the situation in question. 

Yeah, we could do something like this, perhaps not in exactly this
way, but I'm not sure it's a good idea to just execute the parallel
plan without workers.

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