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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Amit Kapila 2021-05-25 09:26:53 +05:30
parent 01e6f1a842
commit 0734b0e983
4 changed files with 7 additions and 7 deletions

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@ -275,11 +275,11 @@ 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>

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@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ ExecVacuum(ParseState *pstate, VacuumStmt *vacstmt, bool isTopLevel)
if (nworkers < 0 || nworkers > MAX_PARALLEL_WORKER_LIMIT)
ereport(ERROR,
(errcode(ERRCODE_SYNTAX_ERROR),
errmsg("parallel vacuum degree must be between 0 and %d",
errmsg("parallel workers for vacuum must be between 0 and %d",
MAX_PARALLEL_WORKER_LIMIT),
parser_errposition(pstate, opt->location)));

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@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[])
vacopts.parallel_workers = atoi(optarg);
if (vacopts.parallel_workers < 0)
{
pg_log_error("parallel vacuum degree must be a non-negative integer");
pg_log_error("parallel workers for vacuum must be greater than or equal to zero");
exit(1);
}
break;
@ -1000,7 +1000,7 @@ help(const char *progname)
printf(_(" --no-index-cleanup don't remove index entries that point to dead tuples\n"));
printf(_(" --no-process-toast skip the TOAST table associated with the table to vacuum\n"));
printf(_(" --no-truncate don't truncate empty pages at the end of the table\n"));
printf(_(" -P, --parallel=PARALLEL_DEGREE use this many background workers for vacuum, if available\n"));
printf(_(" -P, --parallel=PARALLEL_WORKERS use this many background workers for vacuum, if available\n"));
printf(_(" -q, --quiet don't write any messages\n"));
printf(_(" --skip-locked skip relations that cannot be immediately locked\n"));
printf(_(" -t, --table='TABLE[(COLUMNS)]' vacuum specific table(s) only\n"));

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@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ VACUUM (PARALLEL 2) pvactst;
UPDATE pvactst SET i = i WHERE i < 1000;
VACUUM (PARALLEL 0) pvactst; -- disable parallel vacuum
VACUUM (PARALLEL -1) pvactst; -- error
ERROR: parallel vacuum degree must be between 0 and 1024
ERROR: parallel workers for vacuum must be between 0 and 1024
LINE 1: VACUUM (PARALLEL -1) pvactst;
^
VACUUM (PARALLEL 2, INDEX_CLEANUP FALSE) pvactst;