Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes: > On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 11:58 PM, Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> wrote: >> Why is the parallelism variable called "max_parallel_degree"? Is that a >> descriptive name? What does "degree" mean? Why is it not called >> "max_parallel_workers"?
> Because "degree of parallelism" is standard terminology, I guess. FWIW, I agree with Bruce that using "degree" here is a poor choice. It's an unnecessary dependence on technical terminology that many people will not be familiar with. > Also, consider that we have the related but actually sorta different > GUC max_worker_processes. I think max_parallel_workers to control the > per-query behavior and max_worker_processes to control the global > system behavior would be confusing - those names are very close > together. Well, that just says that we'd better reconsider *both* of those names. Frankly, neither of them is well chosen, and the fact that they currently sound unrelated is a bug not a feature. What about something like "max_overall_worker_processes" and "max_session_worker_processes"? regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers