On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 7:47 AM, Alvaro Herrera
<alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> I don't understand the point of having these GIN_EXCLUSIVE / GIN_SHARED
> symbols. It's not like we could do anything different than
> BUFFER_LOCK_EXCLUSIVE etc instead. It there was a GinLockBuffer() it
> might make more sense to have specialized symbols, but as it is it seems
> pointless.
It's a pattern common to the index AMs. I think it's kind of pointless
myself, but as long as we're doing it we might as well be consistent.
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Peter Geoghegan