On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 8:23 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes: > On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 11:58 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote: >> Why is the parallelism variable called "max_parallel_degree"? Is that a >> descriptive name? What does "degree" mean? Why is it not called >> "max_parallel_workers"?
> Because "degree of parallelism" is standard terminology, I guess.
FWIW, I agree with Bruce that using "degree" here is a poor choice. It's an unnecessary dependence on technical terminology that many people will not be familiar with.
So it's certainly not a made-up term. And I'd go as far as to say that most people coming from other databases would be familiar with it. It may not be a standard, but clearly it's very close to being that.
