Re: Lock partitions

Mark Wong <markw@osdl.org> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> It would be nice to see some results from the OSDL tests with, say, 4,
>> 8, and 16 lock partitions before we forget about the point though.
>> Anybody know whether OSDL is in a position to run tests for us?

> Yeah, I can run some dbt2 tests in the lab.  I'll get started on it. 
> We're still a little bit away from getting the automated testing for 
> PostgreSQL going again though.

Great, thanks.  The thing to twiddle is LOG2_NUM_LOCK_PARTITIONS in
src/include/storage/lwlock.h.  You need a full backend recompile
after changing it, but you shouldn't need to initdb, if that helps.
        regards, tom lane