Re: sleep?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Michael Fuhr <mike(at)fuhr(dot)org>, Don Drake <dondrake(at)gmail(dot)com>, John DeSoi <desoi(at)pgedit(dot)com>, Guido Barosio <gbarosio(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: sleep?
Date: 2005-08-22 15:56:39
Message-ID: 16418.1124726199@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> Michael Fuhr wrote:
>> Do you have any use cases in addition to what's already been
>> mentioned? Sleeping isn't really a database operation, so there
>> needs to be some justification for making it a standard function.

> Well, we needed it for our own regression tests, so I assume others
> would need it as well.

... and you'll notice that the regression test that uses it is still
failing intermittently on some of the buildfarm machines, which rather
calls the whole approach into question ...

regards, tom lane

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