Disable `enable_gathermerge` to diagnose whether a slow parallel query's bottleneck is the leader-side merge step or something deeper—like worker memory…
Async append lets the planner fan out queries across remote shards in parallel instead of one at a time, but it's a diagnostic switch, not a tuning knob.
Three PostgreSQL utilities merge into one package: advisory locks (now async), query-log silencing without race conditions, and session-scoped GUC control.