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.
> > Why is it not called > "max_parallel_workers"? >
Degree of Parallelism is a term used in many of the other popular databases for the similar purpose, so I think that is another reason to prefer max_parallel_degree.
