<DD
><P
>        Do not wait forever to acquire shared table locks at the beginning of
        the dump. Instead, fail if unable to lock a table within the specified
        <TT
CLASS="REPLACEABLE"
><I
>timeout</I
></TT
>. The timeout may be
        specified in any of the formats accepted by <TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>SET
        statement_timeout</TT
>.  Allowed values vary depending on the server
        version you are dumping from, but an integer number of milliseconds
        is accepted by all versions sin