Re: timeout on lock feature

> The appropriate way to do this given a LOCK TABLE option would be like
> 
>     BEGIN;
>     LOCK TABLE foo IN ROW EXCLUSIVE MODE WITH TIMEOUT n;
>     UPDATE foo SET ...;
>     COMMIT;
> 
> which restricts the scope of the timeout behavior to just the specific
> lock that the user is thinking of, and doesn't risk breaking fundamental
> system operations.

This is pretty tough because the user has to know the proper lock type,
right?

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