Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> I did it that way (i.e. added locking) and then realized that it
> shouldn't really be a problem, because the only one who can be setting
> vacuum flags is the process itself. Other processes can only read the
> flags.
It would still be a problem if there was any other fields that were
updated by other processes, adjacent to the vacuum flags. I don't think
that's the case, however.
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