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From: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
To: Imseih (AWS), Sami <[email protected]>
To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Correct the documentation for work_mem
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2023 18:59:57 +0200
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>

On 21.04.23 16:28, Imseih (AWS), Sami wrote:
> I recently noticed the following in the work_mem [1] documentation:
> 
> “Note that for a complex query, several sort or hash operations might be 
> running in parallel;”
> 
> The use of “parallel” here is misleading as this has nothing to do with 
> parallel query, but
> 
> rather several operations in a plan running simultaneously.
> 
> The use of parallel in this doc predates parallel query support, which 
> explains the usage.
> 
> I suggest a small doc fix:
> 
> “Note that for a complex query, several sort or hash operations might be 
> running simultaneously;”

Here is a discussion of these terms: 
https://takuti.me/note/parallel-vs-concurrent/

I think "concurrently" is the correct word here.

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