On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 4:57 AM, Gokulakannan Somasundaram
<gokul007(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> by your argument, if WALInserLock is held for 't' seconds, you should
> definitely be holding visibility map lock for more than time frame 't'.
Nope, that's not how it works. Perhaps you should read the code.
See, e.g., heap_update().
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