Re: Parallel Index Scans

On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 8:07 PM, Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have also checked and found that you are right.  In SQL Server, they
> are using max degree of parallelism (MAXDOP) parameter which is I
> think is common for all the sql statements.

It's not just that one that does things this way, for what it's worth.

> I can understand that it can be confusing to users, so other option
> could be to provide separate parameters like parallel_workers_build
> and parallel_workers where first can be used for index build and
> second can be used for scan.  My personal opinion is to have one
> parameter, so that users have one less thing to learn about
> parallelism.

That's my first instinct too, but I don't really have an opinion yet.

I think that this is the kind of thing where it could make sense to
take a "wait and see" approach, and then make a firm decision
immediately prior to beta. This is what we did in deciding the name of
and fine details around what ultimately became the
max_parallel_workers_per_gather GUC (plus related GUCs and storage
parameters).

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Peter Geoghegan