Re: timeout on lock featurey

> What might be a reasonable alternative would be a BEGIN timeout: report 
> failure as soon as possible after N seconds unless the timer is reset, 
> such as by a commit.  Such a timeout would be meaningful at the 
> database-interface level.  It could serve as a useful building block 
> for application-level timeouts when the client environment has trouble 
> applying timeouts on its own.

Now that is a nifty idea.  Just put it on one command, BEGIN, and have
it apply for the whole transaction.  We could just set an alarm and do a
longjump out on timeout.

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