Re: Vacuuming the free space map considered harmful?

[Christophe Pettus]

> On Mar 19, 2025, at 15:06, Christophe Pettus <x...@thebuild.com> wrote:
> 
> From an (admittedly somewhat naïve) look at the code, it appears that having 
> it honor the cost delay wouldn't introduce excessive blocking, as long as the 
> delay wasn't implemented at a really dumb place.

Specifically, it looks like doing the cost-based wait immediately after 
backend/storage/freespace/freespace.c:898 (in HEAD) wouldn't be in a critical 
section, although I could be totally in the weeds on this.