Re: [HACKERS] Moving relation extension locks out of heavyweight lock manager

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Masahiko Sawada <sawada(dot)mshk(at)gmail(dot)com>, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, Mithun Cy <mithun(dot)cy(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Moving relation extension locks out of heavyweight lock manager
Date: 2018-04-26 19:10:03
Message-ID: 20180426191003.atidcbo3265lv37x@alap3.anarazel.de
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Hi,

On 2018-04-26 15:08:24 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> I don't think that's a very useful suggestion. Changing
> N_RELEXTLOCK_ENTS requires a recompile, which is going to be
> impractical for most users. Even if we made it a GUC, we don't want
> users to have to tune stuff like this. If we actually think this is
> going to be a problem, we'd probably better rethink the desgin.

Agreed.

> I think the real question is whether the scenario is common enough to
> worry about. In practice, you'd have to be extremely unlucky to be
> doing many bulk loads at the same time that all happened to hash to
> the same bucket.

With a bunch of parallel bulkloads into partitioned tables that really
doesn't seem that unlikely?

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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