Re: SERIALIZABLE with parallel query

On Wed, Nov 9, 2016 at 12:34 PM, Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 1:51 PM, Thomas Munro
> <thomas(dot)munro(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
>> Currently we don't generate parallel plans in SERIALIZABLE. What
>> problems need to be solved to be able to do that?
>
> FWIW, parallel CREATE INDEX works at SERIALIZABLE isolation level by
> specially asking the parallel infrastructure to not care. I think that
> this works fine, given the limited scope of the problem, but it would
> be nice to have that confirmed.

I don't see any problem with it, but it'd be nicer to get rid of the
restriction so your change isn't needed.

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