pgsql: Eliminate "parallel degree" terminology. - Mailing list pgsql-committers

From Robert Haas
Subject pgsql: Eliminate "parallel degree" terminology.
Date
Msg-id E1bB0Vz-0000bD-4f@gemulon.postgresql.org
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Eliminate "parallel degree" terminology.

This terminology provoked widespread complaints.  So, instead, rename
the GUC max_parallel_degree to max_parallel_workers_per_gather
(leaving room for a possible future GUC max_parallel_workers that acts
as a system-wide limit), and rename the parallel_degree reloption to
parallel_workers.  Rename structure members to match.

These changes create a dump/restore hazard for users of PostgreSQL
9.6beta1 who have set the reloption (or applied the GUC using ALTER
USER or ALTER DATABASE).

Branch
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master

Details
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http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/c9ce4a1c61ebf39c03885cc19fe7c32edc04a300

Modified Files
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doc/src/sgml/config.sgml                      | 10 ++--
doc/src/sgml/ref/create_table.sgml            | 12 ++--
doc/src/sgml/release-9.6.sgml                 |  2 +-
src/backend/access/common/reloptions.c        |  6 +-
src/backend/nodes/outfuncs.c                  |  2 +-
src/backend/optimizer/path/allpaths.c         | 34 +++++------
src/backend/optimizer/path/costsize.c         |  8 +--
src/backend/optimizer/plan/createplan.c       |  2 +-
src/backend/optimizer/plan/planner.c          |  6 +-
src/backend/optimizer/util/pathnode.c         | 86 +++++++++++++--------------
src/backend/optimizer/util/plancat.c          |  4 +-
src/backend/optimizer/util/relnode.c          |  2 +-
src/backend/utils/misc/guc.c                  |  4 +-
src/backend/utils/misc/postgresql.conf.sample |  2 +-
src/bin/psql/tab-complete.c                   |  2 +-
src/include/nodes/relation.h                  |  4 +-
src/include/optimizer/cost.h                  |  2 +-
src/include/optimizer/pathnode.h              |  4 +-
src/include/utils/rel.h                       |  6 +-
19 files changed, 99 insertions(+), 99 deletions(-)


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