On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 2:26 AM, Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com> wrote:
> Neither that rule, nor its variant downthread, would hurt operator authors too
> much. To make the planner categorically parallel-safe, though, means limiting
> evaluate_function() to parallel-safe functions. That would dramatically slow
> selected queries. It's enough for the PL scenario if planning a parallel-safe
> query is itself parallel-safe. If the planner is parallel-unsafe when
> planning a parallel-unsafe query, what would suffer?
Good point. So I guess the rule can be that planning a parallel-safe
query should be parallel-safe. From there, it follows that estimators
for a parallel-safe operator must also be parallel-safe. Which seems
fine.
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