Subject: Re: Rename max_parallel_degree?
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>
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From: "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>
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Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2016 08:27:24 -0700
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On 04/25/2016 07:08 AM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 11:21:01AM +0530, Amit Kapila wrote:
>> On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 9:28 AM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
>>>
>>> Why is the parallelism variable called "max_parallel_degree"?  Is that a
>>> descriptive name?  What does "degree" mean?
>>
>> It is to denote amount of parallelism at node level.
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>
> Sorry, it was Amit who said the parallelism is per-node, meaning calling
> the variable "session" would not work.

max_parallel_nodes

jD


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