On Tue, 2011-07-12 at 07:55 -0500, Robert Haas wrote: > I haven't been that worried about overflow of the fast path table. If > you are locking more than 16 relations at once, you probably have at > least 5 tables in the query, maybe more - it depends in how many > indexes you have, of course. My assumption has been that at that > point you're going to spend enough time planning and executing the > query that the lock manager will no longer be a major bottleneck. Of > course, there might be cases where that isn't so.
Yeah, I think you're right here. It's probably not much of a practical concern. I was slightly bothered because it seemed a little unpredictable. But it seems very minor, and if we wanted to fix it later I think we could. Regards, Jeff Davis -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers