Re: Parallel safety docs for CTEs

On Tue, Nov 19, 2024 at 2:16 PM James Coleman <jtc331(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> A colleague noticed today that the docs still say that "Scans of
> common table expressions (CTEs)" are "always parallel restricted".
>
> While I think that strictly remains true at the implementation level,
> from a user's perspective I think that's not been true since the
> change to default to trying to inline CTEs rather than defaulting to
> materializing them.
>
> Attached is a patch to slightly modify the language; would be happy to
> hear suggestions on a better way to improve this.
>
> Regards,
> James Coleman

I'd forgotten to make a commit fest record for this and stumbled upon
it today. See https://commitfest.postgresql.org/patch/5650/

Regards,
James Coleman