Sergei Kornilov <sk@zsrv.org> writes:
>> which should certainly not happen for a PGC_POSTMASTER parameter.
> But max_parallel_workers is PGC_USERSET and this behavior seems be documented:
Argh! I was looking at max_worker_processes in one window and
max_parallel_workers in another, and failed to see the discrepancy.
Those GUCs are too confusingly named :-(.
regards, tom lane