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-rw-r--r--src/backend/postmaster/autovacuum.c5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/backend/postmaster/autovacuum.c b/src/backend/postmaster/autovacuum.c
index 83c584ddc8c..d516df0ac5c 100644
--- a/src/backend/postmaster/autovacuum.c
+++ b/src/backend/postmaster/autovacuum.c
@@ -2783,6 +2783,11 @@ deleted2:
*
* Given a relation's pg_class tuple, return the AutoVacOpts portion of
* reloptions, if set; otherwise, return NULL.
+ *
+ * Note: callers do not have a relation lock on the table at this point,
+ * so the table could have been dropped, and its catalog rows gone, after
+ * we acquired the pg_class row. If pg_class had a TOAST table, this would
+ * be a risk; fortunately, it doesn't.
*/
static AutoVacOpts *
extract_autovac_opts(HeapTuple tup, TupleDesc pg_class_desc)