On Fri, Dec 1, 2017 at 7:41 AM, Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh.ba...@enterprisedb.com> wrote: > This code creates plans where there are multiple Gather nodes under an Append > node.
We should avoid that. Starting and stopping workers is inefficient, and precludes things like turning the Append into a Parallel Append. > AFAIU, the workers assigned to one gather node can be reused until that > Gather node finishes. Having multiple Gather nodes under an Append mean that > every worker will be idle from the time that worker finishes the work till the > last worker finishes the work. No, workers will exit as soon as they finish. They don't hang around idle. > index b422050..1941468 100644 > --- a/src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list > +++ b/src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list > @@ -2345,6 +2345,7 @@ UnlistenStmt > UnresolvedTup > UnresolvedTupData > UpdateStmt > +UpperPathExtraData > UpperRelationKind > UpperUniquePath > UserAuth > > Do we commit this file as part of the feature? Andres and I regularly commit such changes; Tom rejects them. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company