On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 7:16 PM, Alvaro Herrera
<alvherre@commandprompt.com> wrote:
> One thing I have not addressed is Noah's idea about creating a new lock
> mode, KEY UPDATE, that would let us solve the initial problem that this
> patch set to resolve in the first place. I am not clear on exactly how
> that is to be implemented, because currently heap_update and heap_delete
> do not grab any kind of lock but instead do their own ad-hoc waiting. I
> think that might need to be reshuffled a bit, to which I haven't gotten
> yet, and is a radical enough idea that I would like it to be discussed
> by the hackers community at large before setting sail on developing it.
> In the meantime, this patch does improve the current situation quite a
> lot.
I haven't looked at the patch yet, but do you have a pointer to Noah's
proposal? And/or a description of how it differs from what you
implemented here?
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