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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: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>, Josh berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>, Peter Geoghegan <pg@heroku.com>, Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>, David Rowley <david.rowley@2ndquadrant.com>, Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2016-06-01T02:15:03Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 10:13 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
>> On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 10:02 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>>> The reloption does not set an exact value, according to the code:
>
>> True, max_parallel_degree is an overriding limit.  But the point is
>> that, without the reloption, you can't get lots of workers on a small
>> table.  The reloption lets you do that.
>
> Color me skeptical that that's actually a good idea ...

I'll color you as not having read the threads where multiple users asked for it.

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Robert Haas
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