Re: a funnel by any other name

Robert Haas wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 10:34 AM, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:

> > For 1, Gather makes most sense.
> 
> Yeah, I'm leaning that way myself.  Amit argued for "Parallel Gather"
> but I think that's overkill.  There can't be a non-parallel gather,
> and long names are a pain.

"Gather" seems a pretty decent choice to me too, even if we only have a
single worker (your "1").  I don't think there's much need to
distinguish 1 from 2, is there?

We can bikeshed the other names when the time comes; the insight in the
thread is good to have.

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