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From: Michael Ubell <michael@montage.com>
To: Paul M. Aoki <aoki@postgres.Berkeley.EDU>
Cc: Mark Metson <gpurdy@fox.nstn.ns.ca>
Cc: postgres@postgres.Berkeley.EDU
Subject: Re: Use by a Business
Date: Mon, 30 May 94 12:47:38 -0700
Message-ID: <9405301947.AA02892@pigpen.montage.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199405301940.MAA19840@faerie.CS.Berkeley.EDU>

>  it does do page-level locking for b-trees 
>but not for r-trees and heaps.

Doing page locking on b-trees but not on the underlying heap does not really
buy you anything since if you do an update the whole heap table is locked so
things will be single threaded no matter what you do in the b-tree.

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