Re: Rename max_parallel_degree? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Rename max_parallel_degree?
Date
Msg-id 20160425140826.GC19860@momjian.us
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In response to Re: Rename max_parallel_degree?  (Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: Rename max_parallel_degree?  ("Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>)
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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.                                          ----------

Sorry, it was Amit who said the parallelism is per-node, meaning calling
the variable "session" would not work.

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