• Peter Geoghegan's avatar
    Remove obsolete nbtree README commentary. · 68ef8878
    Peter Geoghegan authored
    Commit d2086b08 removed almost all cases where nbtree must release a
    read buffer lock and acquire a write buffer lock instead, so remaining
    cases in which that's still necessary are not notable enough to appear
    in the nbtree README.
    
    More importantly, holding on to a buffer pin in cases where nbtree must
    trade a read lock for a write lock is very unlikely to save any I/O.
    This seems to have been a long overlooked throwback to a time when
    nbtree cared about write-ordering dependencies, and performed
    synchronous buffer writes.  It hasn't worked that way in many years.
    68ef8878
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