Re: Rename max_parallel_degree?

On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 2:05 PM, Peter Geoghegan  wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 7:04 AM, Robert Haas  wrote:
>> OK, I pushed this after re-reviewing it and fixing a number of
>> oversights.  There remains only the task of adding max_parallel_degree
>> as a system-wide limit (as opposed to max_parallel_degree now
>> max_parallel_workers_per_gather which is a per-Gather limit), which
>> I'm going to argue should be a new open item and not necessarily one
>> that I have to own myself.  I would like to take care of it, but I
>> will not put it ahead of fixing actual defects and I will not promise
>> to have it done in time for 9.6.
>
> I am in favor of having something similar to
> max_parallel_workers_per_gather for utility statements like CREATE
> INDEX. That will need a cost model, at least where the DBA isn't
> explicit about the number of workers to use.

We may well need that, but I think it should be discussed in
conjunction with the patches that add parallelism for those utility
statements, rather than discussing it on a thread for a 9.6 open item.

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