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Re: Rename max_parallel_degree?

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

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From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.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: 2016-09-20T15:47:07Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 11:27 AM, Peter Eisentraut
<peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> On 9/19/16 2:18 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
>> I suggest that we make it part of bgw_flags, but use a bitmask for it,
>> like this:
>>
>> #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.

However, that could be wrong.

-- 
Robert Haas
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