Re: Disable parallel query by default

From: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)kurilemu(dot)de>
To: Scott Mead <scott(at)meads(dot)us>
Cc: Greg Sabino Mullane <htamfids(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Disable parallel query by default
Date: 2025-05-14 15:51:33
Message-ID: 202505141551.ktrlduh6mvog@alvherre.pgsql
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On 2025-May-13, Scott Mead wrote:

> If you have a connection pool from your application and you issue 60
> queries per minute, each that can go from 1 second to 200 ms, That
> means that you are making 120 connections per minute back to the DB.
>
> As we know, connection establishment is brutal....

You're assuming that starting a parallel worker has equivalent cost to
starting a new connection, but I'm not sure that's true. Did you
measure that?

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