Invent min_parallel_relation_size GUC to replace a hard-wired constant.

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

Commit: 75be66464cb1bffa1e5757907b9a04ad5afc7859
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 2016-06-16T17:47:20Z
Releases: 9.6.0
Invent min_parallel_relation_size GUC to replace a hard-wired constant.

The main point of doing this is to allow the cutoff to be set very small,
even zero, to allow parallel-query behavior to be tested on relatively
small tables such as we typically use in the regression tests.  But it
might be of use to users too.  The number-of-workers scaling behavior in
create_plain_partial_paths() is pretty ad-hoc and subject to change, so
we won't expose anything about that, but the notion of not considering
parallel query at all for tables below size X seems reasonably stable.

Amit Kapila, per a suggestion from me

Discussion: <17170.1465830165@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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