Back in early November, I reported that the first version of parallel sequential scan had been committed to PostgreSQL 9.6. I'm pleased to report that a number of significant enhancements have been made since then. Of those, the two that are by the far the most important are that we now support parallel joins and parallel aggregation - which means that the range of queries that can benefit from parallelism is now far broader than just sequential scans.
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