Re: Lock partitions

On Mon, 2006-09-11 at 11:29 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> 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.

IIRC we did that already and the answer was 16...

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