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-rw-r--r--src/backend/optimizer/path/allpaths.c20
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/src/backend/optimizer/path/allpaths.c b/src/backend/optimizer/path/allpaths.c
index 69c7cf64d55..9c6fe752e31 100644
--- a/src/backend/optimizer/path/allpaths.c
+++ b/src/backend/optimizer/path/allpaths.c
@@ -575,15 +575,19 @@ set_rel_consider_parallel(PlannerInfo *root, RelOptInfo *rel,
case RTE_SUBQUERY:
/*
- * Subplans currently aren't passed to workers. Even if they
- * were, the subplan might be using parallelism internally, and we
- * can't support nested Gather nodes at present. Finally, we
- * don't have a good way of knowing whether the subplan involves
- * any parallel-restricted operations. It would be nice to relax
- * this restriction some day, but it's going to take a fair amount
- * of work.
+ * There's no intrinsic problem with scanning a subquery-in-FROM
+ * (as distinct from a SubPlan or InitPlan) in a parallel worker.
+ * If the subquery doesn't happen to have any parallel-safe paths,
+ * then flagging it as consider_parallel won't change anything,
+ * but that's true for plain tables, too. We must set
+ * consider_parallel based on the rel's own quals and targetlist,
+ * so that if a subquery path is parallel-safe but the quals and
+ * projection we're sticking onto it are not, we correctly mark
+ * the SubqueryScanPath as not parallel-safe. (Note that
+ * set_subquery_pathlist() might push some of these quals down
+ * into the subquery itself, but that doesn't change anything.)
*/
- return;
+ break;
case RTE_JOIN:
/* Shouldn't happen; we're only considering baserels here. */