On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 1:24 PM, Metin Doslu <metin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Looking into syncscan.c, it says in comments: > > "When multiple backends run a sequential scan on the same table, we try to > keep them synchronized to reduce the overall I/O needed." > > But in my workload, every process was running on a different table. Ah, ok, so that's what you meant by "independent tables". -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance