Should heap_update/heap_delete hold buffer locks while toasting?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Should heap_update/heap_delete hold buffer locks while toasting?
Date: 2001-01-07 22:10:33
Message-ID: 6397.978905433@sss.pgh.pa.us
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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?

regards, tom lane

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