Re: pgsql: Release the exclusive lock on the table early after truncating it

Tom Lane wrote:
> alvherre(at)postgresql(dot)org (Alvaro Herrera) writes:
> > Release the exclusive lock on the table early after truncating it in lazy
> > vacuum, instead of waiting till commit.
>
> Weren't you going to disable vacuum_delay in that stretch of code, too?

I forgot to mention that I had patched this separately. I back-patched
the removal of vacuum_delay all the way to 8.0, but the early release of
the AccessExclusive lock I limited to HEAD.

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