[development] The dawn of DB locks

[Earnie Boyd]

Quoting Karoly Negyesi <karoly at negyesi.net>:

> 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.
>

Yes, please and thank you.  Locking tables are still something someone 
might want to do.  Though issuing the sql through db_query is just as 
good, I suppose, having the API just seems more thorough.

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