Re: Rename max_parallel_degree?

From: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Josh berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(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>, 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 19:57:51
Message-ID: CAM3SWZSb0FR_d5NaTjUMJFLTHj0yTTPQe6TVyRDfXw5aLf8bGQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 12:55 PM, Alvaro Herrera
<alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> Agreed -- things like pglogical and BDR rely on background workers to do
> their jobs. Many other users of bgworkers have popped up, so I think
> it'd be a bad idea if parallel queries are able to monopolize all the
> available slots.

That never occurred to me. I'd say it could be a serious problem, that
should be fixed promptly.

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Peter Geoghegan

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