Restriction | Description |
Statement compatibility restriction | Parallel query is not supported for non-query statements, including `INSERT ... SELECT` and `REPLACE ... SELECT`. |
| Parallel query is not supported for statements in a stored program. |
| Parallel query is not supported for prepared statements. |
| Parallel query is not supported for statements in serial isolation-level transactions. |
| Parallel query is not supported for locking reads, such as `SELECT FOR UPDATE` and `SELECT ... FOR SHARE`. |
| Parallel query is not supported for CTEs. |
Table/Index compatibility restriction | Parallel query is not supported for system, temp, and non-InnoDB tables. |
| Parallel query is not supported for space index. |
| Parallel query is not supported for full-text index. |
| Parallel query is not supported for partitioned tables. |
| Parallel query is not supported for tables in `index_merge` scan mode. |
Expression/Field compatibility restriction | Parallel query is not supported for tables containing generated columns or BLOB, TEXT, JSON, BIT, and GEOMETRY fields. |
| Parallel query is not supported for aggregate functions of the BIT_AND, BIT_OR, or BIT_XOR type. |
| Parallel query is not supported for DISTINCT aggregations, such as SUM(DISTINCT) and COUNT(DISTINCT). |
| Parallel query is not supported for GIS functions such as SP_WITHIN_FUNC and ST_DISTANCE. |
| Parallel query is not supported for custom functions. |
| Parallel query is not supported for JSON functions such as JSON_LENGTH, JSON_TYPE, and JSON_ARRAYAGG. |
| Parallel query is not supported for XML functions such as XML_STR. |
| Parallel query is not supported for user-lock functions such as IS_FREE_LOCK, IS_USED_LOCK, RELEASE_LOCK, RELEASE_ALL_LOCKS, and GET_LOCK. |
| Parallel query is not supported for SLEEP, RANDOM, GROUP_CONCAT, SET_USER_VAR, and WEIGHT_STRING functions. |
| Parallel query is not supported for certain statistical functions such as STD, STDDEV, STDDEV_POP, VARIANCE, VAR_POP, and VAR_SAMP. |
| Parallel query is not supported for subqueries. |
| Parallel query is not supported for window functions. |
| Parallel query is not supported for ROLLUP. |
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