On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 11:01 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Peter Geoghegan <p...@heroku.com> writes:
>> On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 3:40 AM, Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> What I'm tempted to do is trying to document that, as a point of
>>> policy, parallel query in 9.6 uses up to (workers + 1) times the
>>> resources that a single session might use.  That includes not only CPU
>>> but also things like work_mem and temp file space.  This obviously
>>> isn't ideal, but it's what could be done by the ship date.
>
>> Where would that be documented, though? Would it need to be noted in
>> the case of each such GUC?
>
> Why can't we just note this in the number-of-workers GUCs?  It's not like
> there even *is* a GUC for many of our per-process resource consumption
> behaviors.

+1.

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