Re: [PATCH] ALTER TABLE ADD FOREIGN KEY to partitioned table, is not parallelized

From: Dimitrios Apostolou <jimis(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Frédéric Yhuel <frederic(dot)yhuel(at)dalibo(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-performance(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org, bruce(at)momjian(dot)us, Christophe Courtois <christophe(dot)courtois(at)dalibo(dot)com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ALTER TABLE ADD FOREIGN KEY to partitioned table, is not parallelized
Date: 2025-06-17 16:23:09
Message-ID: 4749eb1e-0fd6-f55b-034a-d3c0bbe5ba8b@gmx.net
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>
> FWIW I implemented a pg_restore --freeze patch, see attached. It needs
> another patch of mine from [1] that implements pg_restore --data-only
> --clean, which for parallel restores encases each COPY in its own transaction
> and prepends it with a TRUNCATE. All feedback is welcome.
>
> [1] https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/c61263f2-7472-5dd8-703d-01e683421f61%40gmx.net
>
> It works really fast for the data, and I see that some, but not all items
> from section=post-data, start parallel plans. For example I see CREATE INDEX
> spawns parallel workers.

I added it to July's commitfest, mostly to trigger discussion around the
issue.

https://commitfest.postgresql.org/patch/5826/

Not sure how to mark on the commitfest page that the patch requires
another patch from another commitfest entry.

Dimitris

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