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parallel_setup_cost
Sets the planner's estimate of the cost of launching parallel worker processes. The default is 1000.
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- boot val
- 1000
- category
- Query Tuning / Planner Cost Constants
- context
- user
- documented
- true
- enumvals
- Unknown
- extra desc
- Unknown
- lang
- en
- max val
- 1.79769e+308
- metadata version
- 18
- min val
- 0
- name
- parallel_setup_cost
- short desc
- Sets the planner's estimate of the cost of starting up worker processes for parallel query.
- source
- pg-settings-source-snapshot
- unit
- Unknown
- vartype
- real
Definition PG 18
Sets the planner's estimate of the cost of launching parallel worker processes. The default is 1000.
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center · PostgreSQL 18 · wiki-repair-20261023:c1b236b6473d39408a0496e830ccb7506566fc9ed02ef279f69aaa25aea2a00f
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