Hi,

While reading the documentation for DROP INDEX[1], I noticed the lock was
described colloquially as an "exclusive" lock, which made me pause for a
second because it's the same name as the EXCLUSIVE table lock.

The attached patch explicitly states that an ACCESS EXCLUSIVE lock is
acquired.

[1]
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-dropindex.html

Attachment: v1-drop-index-doc.patch
Description: Binary data

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