diff --git a/src/backend/access/transam/parallel.c b/src/backend/access/transam/parallel.c
index 3e0ee87..f0ad851 100644
--- a/src/backend/access/transam/parallel.c
+++ b/src/backend/access/transam/parallel.c
@@ -62,7 +62,8 @@
 #define PARALLEL_KEY_ACTIVE_SNAPSHOT		UINT64CONST(0xFFFFFFFFFFFF0007)
 #define PARALLEL_KEY_TRANSACTION_STATE		UINT64CONST(0xFFFFFFFFFFFF0008)
 #define PARALLEL_KEY_EXTENSION_TRAMPOLINE	UINT64CONST(0xFFFFFFFFFFFF0009)
-
+/* Save query text to pass on to the workers */
+#define PARALLEL_KEY_QUERY_TEXT	UINT64CONST(0xE000000000000010)
 /* Fixed-size parallel state. */
 typedef struct FixedParallelState
 {
@@ -1043,6 +1044,7 @@ ParallelWorkerMain(Datum main_arg)
 	/* Restore database connection. */
 	BackgroundWorkerInitializeConnectionByOid(fps->database_id,
 											  fps->authenticated_user_id);
+	pgstat_report_activity(STATE_RUNNING, shm_toc_lookup(toc, PARALLEL_KEY_QUERY_TEXT));
 
 	/*
 	 * Set the client encoding to the database encoding, since that is what
diff --git a/src/backend/executor/execMain.c b/src/backend/executor/execMain.c
index ce6600b..77e7c58 100644
--- a/src/backend/executor/execMain.c
+++ b/src/backend/executor/execMain.c
@@ -190,6 +190,9 @@ standard_ExecutorStart(QueryDesc *queryDesc, int eflags)
 		estate->es_param_exec_vals = (ParamExecData *)
 			palloc0(queryDesc->plannedstmt->nParamExec * sizeof(ParamExecData));
 
+	estate->es_queryString = (char *)palloc0(strlen(queryDesc->sourceText) + 1);
+	estate->es_queryString = queryDesc->sourceText;
+
 	/*
 	 * If non-read-only query, set the command ID to mark output tuples with
 	 */
diff --git a/src/backend/executor/execParallel.c b/src/backend/executor/execParallel.c
index e01fe6d..af30b85 100644
--- a/src/backend/executor/execParallel.c
+++ b/src/backend/executor/execParallel.c
@@ -51,7 +51,8 @@
 #define PARALLEL_KEY_DSA				UINT64CONST(0xE000000000000006)
 
 #define PARALLEL_TUPLE_QUEUE_SIZE		65536
-
+/* Save query text to pass on to the workers */
+#define PARALLEL_KEY_QUERY_TEXT		UINT64CONST(0xE000000000000010)
 /*
  * DSM structure for accumulating per-PlanState instrumentation.
  *
@@ -350,6 +351,12 @@ ExecInitParallelPlan(PlanState *planstate, EState *estate, int nworkers)
 	int			instrumentation_len = 0;
 	int			instrument_offset = 0;
 	Size		dsa_minsize = dsa_minimum_size();
+	char			*query_string;
+	char			*query_data;
+	int 			query_len;
+
+	query_data = (char *)palloc0(strlen(estate->es_queryString) + 1);
+	strcpy(query_data, estate->es_queryString);
 
 	/* Allocate object for return value. */
 	pei = palloc0(sizeof(ParallelExecutorInfo));
@@ -369,6 +376,11 @@ ExecInitParallelPlan(PlanState *planstate, EState *estate, int nworkers)
 	 * for the various things we need to store.
 	 */
 
+	/*Estimate space for query text. */
+	query_len = strlen(query_data);
+	shm_toc_estimate_chunk(&pcxt->estimator, query_len);
+	shm_toc_estimate_keys(&pcxt->estimator, 1);
+
 	/* Estimate space for serialized PlannedStmt. */
 	pstmt_len = strlen(pstmt_data) + 1;
 	shm_toc_estimate_chunk(&pcxt->estimator, pstmt_len);
@@ -433,6 +445,11 @@ ExecInitParallelPlan(PlanState *planstate, EState *estate, int nworkers)
 	 * asked for has been allocated or initialized yet, though, so do that.
 	 */
 
+	/* Store query string */
+	query_string = shm_toc_allocate(pcxt->toc, query_len);
+	memcpy(query_string, query_data, query_len);
+	shm_toc_insert(pcxt->toc, PARALLEL_KEY_QUERY_TEXT, query_string);
+
 	/* Store serialized PlannedStmt. */
 	pstmt_space = shm_toc_allocate(pcxt->toc, pstmt_len);
 	memcpy(pstmt_space, pstmt_data, pstmt_len);
@@ -643,6 +660,10 @@ ExecParallelGetQueryDesc(shm_toc *toc, DestReceiver *receiver,
 	char	   *paramspace;
 	PlannedStmt *pstmt;
 	ParamListInfo paramLI;
+	char	    *queryString;
+
+	/* Get the query string from shared memory */
+	queryString = shm_toc_lookup(toc, PARALLEL_KEY_QUERY_TEXT);
 
 	/* Reconstruct leader-supplied PlannedStmt. */
 	pstmtspace = shm_toc_lookup(toc, PARALLEL_KEY_PLANNEDSTMT);
@@ -661,7 +682,7 @@ ExecParallelGetQueryDesc(shm_toc *toc, DestReceiver *receiver,
 	 * revising this someday.
 	 */
 	return CreateQueryDesc(pstmt,
-						   "<parallel query>",
+						   queryString,
 						   GetActiveSnapshot(), InvalidSnapshot,
 						   receiver, paramLI, instrument_options);
 }
diff --git a/src/backend/executor/execUtils.c b/src/backend/executor/execUtils.c
index e49feff..51d231d 100644
--- a/src/backend/executor/execUtils.c
+++ b/src/backend/executor/execUtils.c
@@ -139,6 +139,7 @@ CreateExecutorState(void)
 	estate->es_epqTuple = NULL;
 	estate->es_epqTupleSet = NULL;
 	estate->es_epqScanDone = NULL;
+	estate->es_queryString = NULL;
 
 	/*
 	 * Return the executor state structure
diff --git a/src/include/nodes/execnodes.h b/src/include/nodes/execnodes.h
index f9bcdd6..588ee1e 100644
--- a/src/include/nodes/execnodes.h
+++ b/src/include/nodes/execnodes.h
@@ -430,6 +430,7 @@ typedef struct EState
 
 	/* The per-query shared memory area to use for parallel execution. */
 	struct dsa_area   *es_query_dsa;
+	const char *es_queryString; /* Query string for passing to workers */
 } EState;