Re: Rename max_parallel_degree?

Julien Rouhaud <julien.rouhaud@dalibo.com>

From: Julien Rouhaud <julien.rouhaud@dalibo.com>

To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

Cc: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>, "David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>, Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@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: 2016-06-11T22:24:30Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

Attachments

global_max_parallel_workers-v2.diff (text/plain) patch v2

On 11/06/2016 23:37, Julien Rouhaud wrote:
> On 09/06/2016 16:04, Robert Haas wrote:
>>
>> OK, I pushed this after re-reviewing it and fixing a number of
>> oversights.  There remains only the task of adding max_parallel_degree
>> as a system-wide limit (as opposed to max_parallel_degree now
>> max_parallel_workers_per_gather which is a per-Gather limit), which
>> I'm going to argue should be a new open item and not necessarily one
>> that I have to own myself.  I would like to take care of it, but I
>> will not put it ahead of fixing actual defects and I will not promise
>> to have it done in time for 9.6.
>>
> 
> PFA a patch to fix this open item.  I used the GUC name provided in the
> 9.6 open item page (max_parallel_workers), with a default value of 4.
> Value 0 is another way to disable parallel query.
> 

Sorry I just realized I made a stupid mistake, I didn't check in all
slots to get the number of active parallel workers. Fixed in attached v2.

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Julien Rouhaud
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