Re: explain analyze output with parallel workers - question about meaning of information for explain.depesz.com

On Sat, Nov 25, 2017 at 07:08:03AM +0530, Amit Kapila wrote:
> > For example, check step 13 in https://explain.depesz.com/s/gNBd
> >
> > It shows time of 3ms, but loops of 1873, so the actual time is ~ 5600ms.
> >
> > But with parallel execution it seems to be no longer the case.
> >
> > For example:
> > https://explain.depesz.com/s/LTMp
> > or
> > https://explain.depesz.com/s/QHRi
> > Should I, for explain.depesz.com, when dealing
> > with partial* and parallel* nodes, use "loops=1" for calculation of
> > exclusive/inclusive time? always? some other nodes?
> >
>
> I am not sure what exactly inclusive or exclusive means, but for
> parallel nodes, total stats are accumulated so you are seeing loops as
> 'worker nodes + 1'. Now, as presumably workers run parallelly, so I
> think the actual time will be what will be shown in the node not
> actual time * nloops.

Please check the plans:
https://explain.depesz.com/s/gNBd (step 13)
and https://explain.depesz.com/s/LTMp (step 3)

Inclusive time is basically "loops * actual time", so for Index Scan,
which had 1873 loops and actual time of 3.002..3.016, we got 1873
* 3.016 = 5648.968ms.

In case of parallel workers it looks like the inclusive time is
basically the upper value from actual time.

The question now is: how can I tell which nodes should use "actual_time
* 1" and which "actual_time * loops" time?

Anything "below" "Gather"?
Anything starting with "Partial?"
Anything starting with "Parallel"?
Anything with "Worker" in node "description" in explain?

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