Jim Nasby <Jim.Nasby@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.
regards, tom lane