Re: [GENERAL] ERROR: out of shared memory

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Sorin N(dot) Ciolofan" <ciolofan(at)ics(dot)forth(dot)gr>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] ERROR: out of shared memory
Date: 2007-03-27 13:59:15
Message-ID: 19352.1175003955@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Sorin N. Ciolofan" <ciolofan(at)ics(dot)forth(dot)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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