Re: Rename max_parallel_degree?

Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 11:22 AM, Alvaro Herrera
> <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
>> I think the word "degree" is largely seen as a bad idea: it would become
>> a somewhat better idea only if we change how it works so that it matches
>> what other DBMSs do, but you oppose that. Hence my proposal to get rid
>> of that word in the UI.

> Well I agree with that up to a point, but I think ALTER TABLE foo SET
> (parallelism = 4) is not a model of clarity. "parallelism" or
> "parallel" is not obviously an integer quality. I guess we could
> s/parallel_degree/parallel_workers/g. I find that terminology less
> elegant than "parallel degree", but I can live with it.

Shouldn't it be "max_parallel_workers", at least in some contexts?
Otherwise, I'd read it as a promise that exactly that many workers
will be used.

regards, tom lane