| From: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Christoph Berg <myon(at)debian(dot)org>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Rename max_parallel_degree? |
| Date: | 2016-05-02 19:22:52 |
| Message-ID: | CA+TgmoZbLvXV2gTDwM0WWciusaQ_xdN-inJgpa-ENE-RTSEnWg@mail.gmail.com |
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On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 3:18 PM, Christoph Berg <myon(at)debian(dot)org> wrote:
> Re: Robert Haas 2016-05-02 <CA+TgmobRmK649eDYvF6dgnQJNJVJvZffDz674wD+GWqCcb=YjQ(at)mail(dot)gmail(dot)com>
>> max_parallel_degree -> max_parallel_workers
>> parallel_degree -> parallel_workers
>>
>> I would prefer to keep it as "degree". It's a reasonable term of art,
>> and it also improves grep-ability. But I'm willing to go do the above
>> renaming if there is a clear consensus behind it. Alternatively, I'm
>> willing to make it 1-based rather than 0-based if there is a clear
>> consensus on that option, though unsurprisingly I prefer it the way it
>> is now. Do we have such a consensus?
>
> Fwiw the one thing I remember from when I read first about the feature
> was a big "wtf if I set that to 1, I'll actually get 2 processes?". So
> +1 on doing *something* about it.
To be clear, you'll get 1 new process in addition to the 1 that is
already running. But vote noted.
--
Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
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