Re: Rename max_parallel_degree?

Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>

To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

Cc: Julien Rouhaud <julien.rouhaud@dalibo.com>, Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>, "David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>, Peter Geoghegan <pg@heroku.com>, Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>, David Rowley <david.rowley@2ndquadrant.com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Date: 2016-09-20T19:31:58Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

On 9/20/16 11:47 AM, Robert Haas wrote:
>>> >> #define BGWORKER_CLASS_MASK   0x00f0
>>> >> #define BGWORKER_CLASS_PARALLEL  0x0010
>>> >> /* add additional bgworker classes here */
>> >
>> > Unless we have a mechanism that makes use of this somehow, this attempt
>> > at categorizing might be premature.
> My main reason for wanting is that I suspect there will be a similar
> desire to limit the number of replication workers at some point.

Would that work for something developed as an extension?  Would we all
have to agree on non-conflicting numbers?  Maybe a string tag would work
better?

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