Thanks for clarifying! It makes sense to use a different word in the DB community if Lock has some other previous meaning. It's easy to forget that RDBMS terminology has been along longer than most areas of CS.
The terminology clash in this case is unfortunate, because I'd wager that 90% of the people active in the field of concurrent data structures will use 'lock' rather than 'latch'.
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Thanks for clarifying! It makes sense to use a different word in the DB community if Lock has some other previous meaning. It's easy to forget that RDBMS terminology has been along longer than most areas of CS.
The terminology clash in this case is unfortunate, because I'd wager that 90% of the people active in the field of concurrent data structures will use 'lock' rather than 'latch'.