Arrange for read-only accesses to SLRU page buffers to take only a shared

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

Commit: a615acf555c0e9ea6ed1c5398d14b81ff2179e6c
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 2005-12-06T18:10:06Z
Releases: 8.2.0
Arrange for read-only accesses to SLRU page buffers to take only a shared
lock, not exclusive, if the desired page is already in memory.  This can
be demonstrated to be a significant win on the pg_subtrans cache when there
is a large window of open transactions.  It should be useful for pg_clog
as well.  I didn't try to make GetMultiXactIdMembers() use the code, as
that would have taken some restructuring, and what with the local cache
for multixact contents it probably wouldn't really make a difference.
Per my recent proposal.

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