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Re: Rename max_parallel_degree?

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

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: "David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>
Cc: Josh berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>, Peter Geoghegan <pg@heroku.com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>, David Rowley <david.rowley@2ndquadrant.com>, Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2016-05-31T18:13:56Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
"David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com> writes:
> On Tuesday, May 31, 2016, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> I really think that a GUC named "max_parallel_workers", which in fact
>> limits the number of workers and not something else, is the way to go.

> What is your opinion on the internal name for this?  Leave it as "degree"?

If that proposal is accepted, I am willing to go through the code and
rename everything internally to match (and, in fact, would insist on
that happening).  But I think the current debate is primarily around
how we present this to users, so talking about the documentation seems
sufficient for the moment.

> The change from two to three for the default sneaked in there...

Well, that would be the same effective value under Robert's patch.

			regards, tom lane