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