> Let's say you've got a web application with some cookie-cutter OLTP queries (which are well suited to serial plans ... no parallel aggregation benefit here).

> Let's say you've got a web application with some cookie-cutter OLTP queries (which are well suited to serial plans ... no parallel aggregation benefit here). in my case, the OLTP queries run against a dedicated slave that's mostly busy doing nothing, waiting for the next OLTP query to happen. So for me this will be very, very nice :-)