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Parallelism

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How to Increase Max Workers Per Gather in Postgres 15

Workmen is a scary parameter to set and why people often go relatively conservative, but they want to bump it up so the operations can happen in memory. Once you introduce further parallelism, that multiplies. And if we expect only a few users using our 96 core or maybe 244 AMD, Epic Milan core CPU, of course. We definitely need to reconsider and increase max workers per gather,. There is one set settings, mark marks working processes, which requires restart. All others don't require restart. It's usually increased also for logical replication. But in this case, if you expect heavy queries and only a few Users using some beast machine, you need to increase it a lot. Everything

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