Re: Rename max_parallel_degree?

On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 02:23:43PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > Also, consider that we have the related but actually sorta different
> > GUC max_worker_processes. I think max_parallel_workers to control the
> > per-query behavior and max_worker_processes to control the global
> > system behavior would be confusing - those names are very close
> > together.
>
> Well, that just says that we'd better reconsider *both* of those names.
> Frankly, neither of them is well chosen, and the fact that they currently
> sound unrelated is a bug not a feature. What about something like
> "max_overall_worker_processes" and "max_session_worker_processes"?

I don't think "overall" works. I am think
"max_cluster_worker_processes" and "max_session_worker_processes" works.
I guess you could also use "max_server_worker_processes", but that is
referring to the database server, not the OS-level server.

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