Hi, Occasionally, when debugging issues, I find it quite useful to be able to do a heap_page_items() on a page that's actually locked exclusively concurrently. E.g. investigating the recent multixact vacuuming issues, it was very useful to attach a debugger to one backend to step through freezing, and display the page in another session.
Currently the locking in get_raw_page_internal() prevents that. If it's an option defaulting to off, I don't see why we couldn't allow that to skip locking the page's contents. Obviously you can get corrupted contents that way, but we already allow to pass arbitrary stuff to heap_page_items(). Since pinning wouldn't be changed, there's no danger of the page being moved out from under us. Greetings, Andres Freund -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers