I have just found out the hard way (cf commits 22864f6e0, 776a2c887) that if one uses EXPLAIN with both ANALYZE and VERBOSE selected, the output is not the same between force_parallel_mode = off and force_parallel_mode = regress. This seems to me to be quite broken; what's the point of force_parallel_mode = regress if it doesn't produce the same output?
The reason there's a problem is that ExplainNode() will show per-worker detail if both es->analyze and es->verbose are set, even when the only reason there's a worker process is that force_parallel_mode injected a supposedly-invisible Gather. I don't see any way to fix this that doesn't involve some sort of "action at a distance". One could imagine hiding the per-worker detail if we're underneath a Gather that has invisible set to true, but it's not really clear to me that that would do the right things in a plan with multiple Gather nodes. Any thoughts about that? regards, tom lane