IPC: ParallelCreateIndexScan
Waiting for parallel CREATE INDEX workers to finish heap scan
PostgreSQL wait event dossier
ClassIPC
Event
ParallelCreateIndexScan
VersionsPG 13-18
Evidence2 source location(s)
Official description
Waiting for parallel CREATE INDEX workers to finish heap scan
| PG 13 | PG 14 | PG 15 | PG 16 | PG 17 | PG 18 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Trigger mechanism
WAIT_EVENT_PARALLEL_CREATE_INDEX_SCAN at src/backend/access/brin/brin.c:2600 is the grep-verified reporting path. The public identity/resource is mapped at src/backend/utils/activity/wait_event_names.txt:145. The instrumented operation is: Waiting for parallel CREATE INDEX workers to finish heap scan. The ParallelCreateIndexScan path has reached a process-coordination point and sleeps until a peer, worker, barrier, queue, or replication phase signals progress.
Normal or trouble?
- Normal: Brief rendezvous is normal when every participant continues to advance.
- Investigate: Investigate when the same phase persists across three samples, the expected peer is absent or blocked, or a queue and its dependants stop moving.
Diagnostic SQL
Sessions waiting on IPC/ParallelCreateIndexScan
Current IPC cohort
Lock and relation context for these sessions
Response
- Identify the peer or phase named by the event.
- Inspect that participant’s wait, error, and progress state.
- Repair the stalled participant or upstream dependency instead of treating the waiter as the root cause.
Source evidence
- PostgreSQL 18.6 · src/backend/access/brin/brin.c:2600 —
WAIT_EVENT_PARALLEL_CREATE_INDEX_SCAN - PostgreSQL 18.6 · src/backend/utils/activity/wait_event_names.txt:145 —
PARALLEL_CREATE_INDEX_SCAN
Related controls and signals
- GUCs: None directly.
- Metrics: [metric:waiting_sessions] · [metric:wait_event_share]