On Mon, Nov 09, 2020 at 08:32:13PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Do we really need exclusive lock on the ProcArray to make this flag
> change?  That seems pretty bad from a concurrency standpoint.

Any place where we update vacuumFlags acquires an exclusive LWLock on
ProcArrayLock.  That's held for a very short time, so IMO it won't
matter much in practice, particularly if you compare that with the
potential gains related to the existing wait phases.
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Michael

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