Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> writes: > On 2018-09-11 12:18:59 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: >> Doesn't matter: startup would hit a lock conflict and cancel the pg_dump >> to get out of it, long before approaching locktable full.
> Only if all that's happening in the same database, which is far from a > given. Well, there remains the fact that we've seen no field reports that seem to trace to failure-to-acquire-AEL since 9.6 came out. So arguing that this *could* be a probable scenario fails to comport with the available evidence. My inclination is to fix it as I've suggested and wait to see if there are field complaints before expending a whole lot of effort to create a better solution. In any case, I am not willing to create that better solution myself, and neither is Robert; are you? regards, tom lane