Re: Explain buffers wrong counter with parallel plans

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Adrien Nayrat <adrien(dot)nayrat(at)anayrat(dot)info>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Explain buffers wrong counter with parallel plans
Date: 2018-05-07 17:49:35
Message-ID: CA+TgmobCqFVxGPbHw-mGM3bmLD23ftM2GRDOC25wv3eiV+p1iA@mail.gmail.com
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On Sat, May 5, 2018 at 8:56 AM, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> The reason why I think the current behavior is okay because it is
> coincidental that they were displayed correctly. We have not made any
> effort to percolate it to upper nodes. For ex., before that commit
> also, it was not being displayed for Gather Merge or Gather with some
> kind of node like 'Limit' where we have to stop before reaching the
> end of the result.

It's not entirely coincidental. I had the intention to try to ensure
that the workers would be shut down before the Gather or Gather Merge,
and I think that various things in the code testify to that intention.
It sounds like I missed some cases, but now we're missing even more
cases.

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Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

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