On 27 Jun 2005 at 7:39, Jim Starkey wrote:

>> Why can't "splitter" just acquire write lock on two pages: splitted
>>and the next? Are our index reader fast enough to leave "area under
>>construction" in reasonable time?
>>
>It means that readers block readers, destroying concurrency.

Do you mean that readers can split index pages? AFAIR we are
talking about this case here.
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SY, Dimitry Sibiryakov.