[HACKERS] Should heap_update/heap_delete hold buffer locks while toasting?

[Tom Lane]

The way that heap_update() and heap_delete() are currently coded, they
hold the buffer context lock on the buffer containing the old tuple
while they invoke heap_tuple_toast_attrs().  This strikes me as at least
inefficient and at worst a source of deadlock.  Is it possible to avoid
holding the buffer lock while doing the TOAST manipulations?

                        regards, tom lane