Re: 8.2 beta blockers

From: "Merlin Moncure" <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "Bruce Momjian" <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: 8.2 beta blockers
Date: 2006-09-18 20:05:31
Message-ID: b42b73150609181305k4a325102v3ba51c82f37b9f40@mail.gmail.com
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On 9/18/06, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> > Josh Berkus wrote:
> >> Is UserLocks a cool enough feature to be worth mentioning in the 8.2 PR?
>
> > Probably not.
>
> Especially not since the capability has been there right along.

I disagree, almost nobody knows about them, due to lousy name and lack
of documentation. I think the pr hook should be merited to their
general usefullness, previous implementation notwithstanding.
techinally, we added a wait version too, right? 8.1 table
partitioning was dressed up inheritance right? :) (not quite the
same, i know but...)

merlin

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