Hi, Today marks the end of explicit database locks issued by Drupal core. Thanks to David Strauss who helped me getting rid of them by patching cache_set and variable_set in http://drupal.org/node/55516 . Now, do we want to keep db_lock_table ? In Drupal 6, likely yes. In Drupal 7? The question makes sense even if go over to PDO. Regards, NK