Don't bother to lock bufmgr partitions in pg_buffercache.

Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>

Commit: 6e654546fb61f62cc982d0c8f62241b3b30e7ef8
Author: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>
Date: 2016-09-29T10:16:30Z
Releases: 10.0
Don't bother to lock bufmgr partitions in pg_buffercache.

That makes the view a lot less disruptive to use on a production system.
Without the locks, you don't get a consistent snapshot across all buffers,
but that's OK. It wasn't a very useful guarantee in practice.

Ivan Kartyshov, reviewed by Tomas Vondra and Robert Haas.

Discusssion: <f9d6cab2-73a7-7a84-55a8-07dcb8516ae5@postgrespro.ru>

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