diff --git a/contrib/file_fdw/file_fdw.c b/contrib/file_fdw/file_fdw.c
index cf12710..6dbb4d0 100644
--- a/contrib/file_fdw/file_fdw.c
+++ b/contrib/file_fdw/file_fdw.c
@@ -131,6 +131,8 @@ static void fileEndForeignScan(ForeignScanState *node);
 static bool fileAnalyzeForeignTable(Relation relation,
 						AcquireSampleRowsFunc *func,
 						BlockNumber *totalpages);
+static bool fileIsForeignScanParallelSafe(PlannerInfo *root, RelOptInfo *rel,
+										  RangeTblEntry *rte);
 
 /*
  * Helper functions
@@ -170,6 +172,7 @@ file_fdw_handler(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	fdwroutine->ReScanForeignScan = fileReScanForeignScan;
 	fdwroutine->EndForeignScan = fileEndForeignScan;
 	fdwroutine->AnalyzeForeignTable = fileAnalyzeForeignTable;
+	fdwroutine->IsForeignScanParallelSafe = fileIsForeignScanParallelSafe;
 
 	PG_RETURN_POINTER(fdwroutine);
 }
@@ -762,6 +765,17 @@ fileAnalyzeForeignTable(Relation relation,
 }
 
 /*
+ * fileIsForeignScanParallelSafe
+ * 		Check if parallel scans are safe.
+ */
+static bool
+fileIsForeignScanParallelSafe(PlannerInfo *root, RelOptInfo *rel,
+								  RangeTblEntry *rte)
+{
+	return true;
+}
+
+/*
  * check_selective_binary_conversion
  *
  * Check to see if it's useful to convert only a subset of the file's columns