Thomas Kellerer <spam_eater@xxxxxxx> writes: > laurent.dechambe@xxxxxxxxxx schrieb am 17.04.2019 um 16:33: >> On jdbc it seems this is equivalent to write : >> statement. setMaxRows(0); // parallelism authorized, which is the default. >> >> Thus on my jdbc basic program if I add : >> statement. setMaxRows(100); // No parallelism allowed (at least in Pg10) > This isn't limited to Statement.setMaxRows() > If you use "LIMIT x" in your SQL query, the same thing happens. No, not true: queries with LIMIT x are perfectly parallelizable. The trouble with the protocol-level limit (setMaxRows) is that it requires being able to suspend the query and resume fetching rows later. We don't allow that for parallel query because it would involve tying up vastly more resources, ie a bunch of worker processes, not just some extra memory in the client's own backend. regards, tom lane