1. Just changed
        TAS(lock) to pthread_mutex_trylock(lock)
        S_LOCK(lock) to pthread_mutex_lock(lock)
        S_UNLOCK(lock) to pthread_mutex_unlock(lock)
(and S_INIT_LOCK to share mutex-es between processes).

2. pgbench was initialized with scale 10.
   SUN WS 10 (512Mb), Solaris 2.6 (I'm unable to test on E4500 -:()
   -B 16384, wal_files 8, wal_buffers 256,
   checkpoint_segments 64, checkpoint_timeout 3600
   50 clients x 100 transactions
   (after initialization DB dir was saved and before each test
    copyed back and vacuum-ed).

3. No difference.
   Mutex version maybe 0.5-1 % faster (eg: 37.264238 tps vs 37.083339 tps).

So - no gain, but no performance loss "from using pthread library"
(I've also run tests with 1 client), at least on Solaris.

And so - looks like we can use POSIX mutex-es and conditional variables
(not semaphores; man pthread_cond_wait) and should implement light lmgr,
probably with priority locking.

Vadim

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