Re: Rename max_parallel_degree?

Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org>

From: Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2016-05-02T19:18:28Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Re: Robert Haas 2016-05-02 <CA+TgmobRmK649eDYvF6dgnQJNJVJvZffDz674wD+GWqCcb=YjQ@mail.gmail.com>
> max_parallel_degree -> max_parallel_workers
> parallel_degree -> parallel_workers
> 
> I would prefer to keep it as "degree".  It's a reasonable term of art,
> and it also improves grep-ability.  But I'm willing to go do the above
> renaming if there is a clear consensus behind it.  Alternatively, I'm
> willing to make it 1-based rather than 0-based if there is a clear
> consensus on that option, though unsurprisingly I prefer it the way it
> is now.  Do we have such a consensus?

Fwiw the one thing I remember from when I read first about the feature
was a big "wtf if I set that to 1, I'll actually get 2 processes?". So
+1 on doing *something* about it.

Christoph