Amit Kapila <amit.kapil...@gmail.com> writes: > Your explanation is clear, however the name max_parallel_workers makes it > sound like that parallelising an operation is all about workers. Yes it > depends a lot on the number of workers allocated for parallel operation, > but that is not everything. I think calling it max_parallelism as > suggested by Alvaro upthread suits better than max_parallel_workers.
I don't think that's a good direction at all. This entire discussion is caused by the fact that it's not very clear what "max_parallel_degree" measures. Fixing that problem by renaming the variable to something that doesn't even pretend to tell you what it's counting is not an improvement. 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