Re: max_parallel_workers question

On Sat, Sep 28, 2019 at 12:10:53AM -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 8:07 PM Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com> wrote:
> > The current docs for max_parallel_workers start out:
> >
> > "Sets the maximum number of workers that the system can support for
> > parallel operations..."
> >
> > In my interpretation, "the system" means the entire cluster, but the
> > max_parallel_workers setting is PGC_USERSET. That's a bit confusing,
> > because two different backends can have different settings for "the
> > maximum number ... the system can support".
>
> Oops.
>
> I intended it to mean "the entire cluster." Basically, how many
> workers out of max_worker_processes are you willing to use for
> parallel query, as opposed to other things. I agree that PGC_USERSET
> doesn't make any sense.

I found two places there "custer" was better than "system", so I applied
the attached patch to master.

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