Tom Lane wrote:
> The way that heap_update() and heap_delete() are currently coded, they
> hold the buffer context lock on the buffer containing the old tuple
> while they invoke heap_tuple_toast_attrs(). This strikes me as at least
> inefficient and at worst a source of deadlock. Is it possible to avoid
> holding the buffer lock while doing the TOAST manipulations?
Since the TOAST table access is doing it's own locking on the
TOAST tables, I think it'd be possible to move it outside of
the buffer lock.
Jan
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