Re: Parallel Seq Scan

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Jim Nasby <Jim(dot)Nasby(at)bluetreble(dot)com>, John Gorman <johngorman2(at)gmail(dot)com>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Parallel Seq Scan
Date: 2015-01-22 14:17:00
Message-ID: CA+TgmobKaYREemD-iyGpgUeEajJ5fsoGejuYk0CgE9LXTWy79A@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 9:02 AM, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> I'm confused. Your actual test numbers seem to show that the
>> performance with the block-by-block approach was slightly higher with
>> parallelism than without, where as the performance with the
>> chunk-by-chunk approach was lower with parallelism than without, but
>> the text quoted above, summarizing those numbers, says the opposite.
>
> Sorry for causing confusion, I should have been more explicit about
> explaining the numbers. Let me try again,
> Values in columns is time in milliseconds to complete the execution,
> so higher means it took more time. If you see in block-by-block, the
> time taken to complete the execution with 2 workers is more than
> no workers which means parallelism has degraded the performance.

*facepalm*

Oh, yeah, right.

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Robert Haas
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