Fix misleading comment in nodeIndexonlyscan.c.

The stated reason for acquiring predicate locks on heap pages hasn't
existed since commit c01262a8, so fix the comment.  Perhaps in a later
release we'll also be able to change the code to use tuple locks.

Back-patch all the way.

Reviewed-by: Ashwin Agrawal
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm%3D2GK3FVdnt5V3d%2Bh9njWipCv_fNL%3DwjxyUhzsF%3D0PcbNg%40mail.gmail.com

diff --git a/src/backend/executor/nodeIndexonlyscan.c b/src/backend/executor/nodeIndexonlyscan.c
index 8a4d795d1a9fe91515bd8b2f097a8c3bf155acca..f0f8fa210ba6baf93c28e4f11e8a8ae66745962e 100644 (file)
--- a/src/backend/executor/nodeIndexonlyscan.c
+++ b/src/backend/executor/nodeIndexonlyscan.c
@@ -242,11 +242,8 @@ IndexOnlyNext(IndexOnlyScanState *node)
                                         errmsg("lossy distance functions are not supported in index-only scans")));
 
                /*
-                * Predicate locks for index-only scans must be acquired at the page
-                * level when the heap is not accessed, since tuple-level predicate
-                * locks need the tuple's xmin value.  If we had to visit the tuple
-                * anyway, then we already have the tuple-level lock and can skip the
-                * page lock.
+                * If we didn't access the heap, then we'll need to take a predicate
+                * lock explicitly, as if we had.  For now we do that at page level.
                 */
                if (!tuple_from_heap)
                        PredicateLockPage(scandesc->heapRelation,