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authorAmit Kapila <akapila@postgresql.org>2021-05-25 09:40:16 +0530
committerAmit Kapila <akapila@postgresql.org>2021-05-25 09:40:16 +0530
commit9012e5594c6ff803abb6d51e164797e3810845c1 (patch)
tree7fa1001a5c50fd2e6296f1caf12f6be93c4baf15 /doc/src
parenta23c0b00f08a983216faf16c5d2e94fe963fa0d1 (diff)
Improve docs and error messages for parallel vacuum.
The error messages, docs, and one of the options were using 'parallel degree' to indicate parallelism used by vacuum command. We normally use 'parallel workers' at other places so change it for parallel vacuum accordingly. Author: Bharath Rupireddy Reviewed-by: Dilip Kumar, Amit Kapila Backpatch-through: 13 Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALj2ACWz=PYrrFXVsEKb9J1aiX4raA+UBe02hdRp_zqDkrWUiw@mail.gmail.com
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diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/vacuumdb.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/vacuumdb.sgml
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@@ -230,11 +230,11 @@ PostgreSQL documentation
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
- <term><option>-P <replaceable class="parameter">parallel_degree</replaceable></option></term>
- <term><option>--parallel=<replaceable class="parameter">parallel_degree</replaceable></option></term>
+ <term><option>-P <replaceable class="parameter">parallel_workers</replaceable></option></term>
+ <term><option>--parallel=<replaceable class="parameter">parallel_workers</replaceable></option></term>
<listitem>
<para>
- Specify the parallel degree of <firstterm>parallel vacuum</firstterm>.
+ Specify the number of parallel workers for <firstterm>parallel vacuum</firstterm>.
This allows the vacuum to leverage multiple CPUs to process indexes.
See <xref linkend="sql-vacuum"/>.
</para>