On Dec 2, 2016, at 5:45 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Jim Nasby <jim.na...@bluetreble.com> writes: >>> On 12/2/16 2:34 PM, Robert Haas wrote: >>> Signs point to "no". It seemed like a good idea to leave some daylight >>> between max_parallel_workers and max_worker_processes, but evidently this >>> wasn't the way to get there. Or else we should just give up on that thought. > >> Could the defaults be scaled based on max_connections, with a max on the >> default? > > Might work. We've had very bad luck with GUC variables with > interdependent defaults, but maybe the user-visible knob could be a > percentage of max_connections or something like that.
Seems like overkill. Let's just reduce the values a bit. ...Robert -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers