Re: System load consideration before spawning parallel workers

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Haribabu Kommi <kommi(dot)haribabu(at)gmail(dot)com>, Jim Nasby <Jim(dot)Nasby(at)bluetreble(dot)com>, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: System load consideration before spawning parallel workers
Date: 2016-09-02 21:07:30
Message-ID: 20160902210730.GA3841@momjian.us
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On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 01:01:35PM -0400, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Maybe a couple of hooks could be useful to allow people to experiment
> with this. But the hooks should be more general, as described above.
> But I think a few GUC settings that can be adjusted at run time could be
> sufficient as well.

Couldn't SQL sessions call a PL/Perl function that could query the OS
and set max_parallel_workers_per_gather appropriately?

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