The comment should have been referring to the number of workers, not the
number of paths.
Author: Ashutosh Bapat
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAFjFpRcbp4702jcp387PExt3fNCt62QJN8++DQGwBhsW6wRHWA@mail.gmail.com
/*
* If the use of parallel append is permitted, always request at least
- * log2(# of children) paths. We assume it can be useful to have
+ * log2(# of children) workers. We assume it can be useful to have
* extra workers in this case because they will be spread out across
* the children. The precise formula is just a guess, but we don't
* want to end up with a radically different answer for a table with N