Excerpts from Alvaro Herrera's message of vie mar 16 10:36:11 -0300 2012:
> > Now I am confused. Where do you see the word "hint" used by
> > HEAP_XMAX_EXCL_LOCK and HEAP_XMAX_SHARED_LOCK. These are tuple infomask
> > bits, not hints, meaning they are not optional or there just for
> > performance.
>
> Okay, I think this is just a case of confusing terminology. I have
> always assumed (because I have not seen any evidence to the contrary)
> that anything in t_infomask and t_infomask2 is a "hint bit" --
> regardless of it being actually a hint or something with a stronger
> significance.
Maybe this is just my mistake. I see in
http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Hint_Bits that we only call the
COMMITTED/INVALID infomask bits "hints".
I think it's easy enough to correct the README to call them "infomask
bits" rather than hints .. I'll go do that.
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