Re: [GENERAL] ERROR: out of shared memory - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: [GENERAL] ERROR: out of shared memory
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Msg-id 19352.1175003955@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Sorin N. Ciolofan" <ciolofan@ics.forth.gr> writes:
> It seems that the legacy application creates tables dynamically and the
> number of the created tables depends on the size of the input of the
> application. For the specific input which generated that error I've
> estimated a number of created tables of about 4000.
> Could be this the problem?

If you have transactions that touch many of them within one transaction,
then yup, you could be out of locktable space.  Try increasing
max_locks_per_transaction.

            regards, tom lane

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