| From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Josh berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>, David Rowley <david(dot)rowley(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Rename max_parallel_degree? |
| Date: | 2016-05-31 17:14:17 |
| Message-ID: | 574DC669.703@commandprompt.com |
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On 05/31/2016 10:10 AM, Josh berkus wrote:
> Compare this:
>
> "max_parallel is the maximum number of parallel workers which will work
> on each stage of the query which is parallizable. If you set it to 4,
> you get up to 4 workers."
>
> with this:
>
> "max_parallel_degree is the amount of parallelism in the query, with the
> understanding that the original parent process counts as 1, which means
> that if you set it to 1 you get no parallelism, and if you want 4
> parallel workers you need to set it to 5."
>
> Which one of those is going to require more explanations on -general and
> -novice? Bets?
>
> Let's not be complicated for the sake of being complicated.
>
+1
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