Michael Fuhr wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 23, 2005 at 11:18:57AM -0300, Tom Lane wrote:
> > In the stats test, delay for the stats collector to catch up using a
> > function that actually sleeps, instead of busy-waiting.  Perhaps this
> > will resolve some of the intermittent stats failures we keep seeing.
> 
> Any chance of exposing a sleep function to the user?  It's admittedly
> of limited utility and it can usually be done on the client side,
> but I've occasionally wanted one for testing with simple SQL scripts.
> In such cases I end up writing a one-liner with PL/Perl, PL/Tcl, etc.

Agreed --- I was thinking the same thing.

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