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authorDavid Rowley2022-10-20 20:30:27 +0000
committerDavid Rowley2022-10-20 20:30:27 +0000
commitf892150076dbee167ecd850d3628443d0fb34d82 (patch)
tree4d8648895cff830a69fe69d2ca61beb9e951aa39
parenta592ed923e67871749233dcd7106a64936a971cf (diff)
Doc: fix outdated wording about parallel seq scans
56788d215 adjusted the parallel seq scan code so that instead of handing out a single block at a time to parallel workers, it now hands out ranges of blocks. Here we update the documentation which still claimed that workers received just 1 block at a time. Reported-by: Zhang Mingli Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17c99615-2c3b-4e4e-9d0b-424a66a7bccd@Spark Backpatch-through: 14, where 56788d215 was added.
-rw-r--r--doc/src/sgml/parallel.sgml5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/parallel.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/parallel.sgml
index 13479d7e5e3..3e8326d46c8 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/parallel.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/parallel.sgml
@@ -272,8 +272,9 @@ EXPLAIN SELECT * FROM pgbench_accounts WHERE filler LIKE '%x%';
<listitem>
<para>
In a <emphasis>parallel sequential scan</emphasis>, the table's blocks will
- be divided among the cooperating processes. Blocks are handed out one
- at a time, so that access to the table remains sequential.
+ be divided into ranges and shared among the cooperating processes. Each
+ worker process will complete the scanning of its given range of blocks before
+ requesting an additional range of blocks.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>