Re: beta5 ...

At 04:17 PM 2/16/01 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>
>Vadim says (and I agree) that we really ought to implement a new
>lightweight lock manager that would fall between spinlocks and regular
>locks in terms of overhead and functionality.  But it's not reasonable

Will there be an arbitrary user locking feature? E.g. lock on arbitrary
text string. That would be great :). 

BTW, is 7.1 going to be a bit slower than 7.0? Or just Beta 5? Just
curious. Don't mind waiting for 7.2 for the speed-up if necessary.

Cheerio,
Link.