Andres Freund <andres@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On 2021-04-13 11:47:06 -0700, Paul Friedman wrote: >> YES!!! This completely alleviates the bottleneck and I'm able to run the >> queries full-throttle. Thank you SO much for your help+insight. > Cool. And damn: I can't immediately think of a way to optimize this to > not require this kind of hack in the future. Maybe the same thing we do with user tables, ie not give up the lock when we close a toast rel? As long as the internal lock counters are 64-bit, we'd not have to worry about overflowing them. regards, tom lane