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From: Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Rename max_parallel_degree?
Date: Mon, 2 May 2016 21:18:28 +0200
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Re: Robert Haas 2016-05-02 <CA+TgmobRmK649eDYvF6dgnQJNJVJvZffDz674wD+GWqCcb=YjQ@mail.gmail.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.

Christoph


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