Re: Practical maximum max_locks_per_transaction?

On 11/25/22 17:56, Tom Lane wrote:
> Ron <ronljohnsonjr(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> How "raised" is too raised?  I just had to increase
>> max_locks_per_transaction from 640 to 1024 on an instance with many child
>> tables and against which is run many large reports.  Another instance has
>> zero children, but had to increase the value to 1280 to prevent reports from
>> failing.
> max_locks_per_transaction in isolation means nothing. What counts
> is the product max_locks_per_transaction * max_connections, which is
> (more or less) the number of slots allocated in the shared lock table.
>
> Having said that, you can probably make it as big as you want
> on any reasonably modern machine. I wouldn't blink at a few
> million locktable entries, at least not on 64-bit hardware.

Really good to know.  I wonder how that can be worded in the documentation.

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