Received: from malur.postgresql.org ([217.196.149.56]) by arkaria.postgresql.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bAeh8-0007pv-9U for pgsql-hackers@arkaria.postgresql.org; Wed, 08 Jun 2016 14:42:58 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=postgresql.org) by malur.postgresql.org with smtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bAeh7-00045z-4R for pgsql-hackers@arkaria.postgresql.org; Wed, 08 Jun 2016 14:42:57 +0000 Received: from magus.postgresql.org ([2a02:c0:301:0:ffff::29]) by malur.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bAefl-0002NN-30 for pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org; Wed, 08 Jun 2016 14:41:33 +0000 Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us ([66.207.139.130]) by magus.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bAefh-0004Ux-CX for pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org; Wed, 08 Jun 2016 14:41:32 +0000 Received: from sss1.sss.pgh.pa.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id u58EfHFi019723; Wed, 8 Jun 2016 10:41:17 -0400 From: Tom Lane To: Robert Haas cc: Josh Berkus , "David G. Johnston" , Amit Kapila , Peter Geoghegan , Noah Misch , David Rowley , Alvaro Herrera , Magnus Hagander , Bruce Momjian , PostgreSQL-development Subject: Re: Rename max_parallel_degree? In-reply-to: References: <20160426152217.GA548975@alvherre.pgsql> <575051AF.2090101@agliodbs.com> <21660.1464882811@sss.pgh.pa.us> <57508E69.9000505@agliodbs.com> <57509894.9080507@agliodbs.com> <11330.1464961183@sss.pgh.pa.us> <57581603.3040309@agliodbs.com> <18837.1465395492@sss.pgh.pa.us> Comments: In-reply-to Robert Haas message dated "Wed, 08 Jun 2016 10:29:10 -0400" Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2016 10:41:17 -0400 Message-ID: <19722.1465396877@sss.pgh.pa.us> X-Pg-Spam-Score: -3.3 (---) List-Archive: List-Help: List-ID: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Mailing-List: pgsql-hackers Precedence: bulk Sender: pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org Robert Haas writes: > On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 10:18 AM, Tom Lane wrote: >> catversion is not relevant to GUC changes. It's not really necessary, >> because you'd get a clean, easily diagnosed and repaired failure during >> postmaster startup anyway. The point of bumping catversion is to prevent >> a postmaster starting when the incompatibility is subtler or harder to >> debug than that. > The reloption is also getting renamed here. Hmm. I forget what the behavior is if we see an unrecognized reloption already stored in the catalogs, but it might be worth checking. If that's something that's painful to get out of, maybe a catversion bump would be appropriate. (In practice this affects nobody, because there was already a catversion bump since beta1.) regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers