Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 4:01 PM, Gavin Flower
> <GavinFlower@archidevsys.co.nz> wrote:
>> Why not 4? As most processors now have at least 4 physical cores, & surely
>> it be more likely to flush out race conditions.
> Because if we did that, then it's extremely likely that people would
> end up writing queries that are faster only if workers are present,
> and then not get any workers.
Is that because max_worker_processes is only 8 by default? Maybe we
need to raise that, at least for beta purposes?
regards, tom lane