Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@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