Josh berkus <j...@agliodbs.com> writes: > On 05/31/2016 10:16 AM, Peter Geoghegan wrote: >> But the distinction between parallel workers and backends that can >> participate in parallel query does need to be user-visible. Worker >> processes are a commodity (i.e. the user must consider >> max_worker_processes).
> It's still WAY simpler to understand "max_parallel is the number of > parallel workers I requested". > Any system where you set it to 2 and get only 1 worker on an idle system > is going to cause endless queries on the mailing lists. I really think that a GUC named "max_parallel_workers", which in fact limits the number of workers and not something else, is the way to go. 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