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Re: Rename max_parallel_degree?

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

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From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2016-04-25T14:08:26Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 11:21:01AM +0530, Amit Kapila wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 9:28 AM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> >
> > Why is the parallelism variable called "max_parallel_degree"?  Is that a
> > descriptive name?  What does "degree" mean?
> 
> It is to denote amount of parallelism at node level.
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Sorry, it was Amit who said the parallelism is per-node, meaning calling
the variable "session" would not work.

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