Re: Lock partitions - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Mark Wong
Subject Re: Lock partitions
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Msg-id 453662E1.3080802@osdl.org
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In response to Re: Lock partitions  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Mark Wong <markw@osdl.org> writes:
>> Tom Lane wrote:
>>> Hmm, what sort of errors are we talking about?
> 
>> ERROR:  too many LWLocks taken
> 
> That really shouldn't happen ... are you sure you did a full recompile
> after changing NUM_LOCK_PARTITIONS?
> 
> Actually ... wait a moment.  The default value of NUM_LOCK_PARTITIONS
> is already 16 (1 << LOG2_NUM_LOCK_PARTITIONS where the latter is 4).
> Are you saying you set LOG2_NUM_LOCK_PARTITIONS to 16?  That would be
> way too many partitions.  I was thinking of testing
> LOG2_NUM_LOCK_PARTITIONS in the range of about 2 to 5.

Oops, I can't read bit shifting. =p  I'll do again.

Mark


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