Thanks for all of the replies. I recompiled my DB with plperlu and am using 
perl's sleep function.

I agree that a basic function (non-CPU intensive sleep) like this should be 
built in.

Thanks again.

-Don


On 8/21/05, John DeSoi <desoi(at)pgedit(dot)com> wrote:
> 
> 
> On Aug 21, 2005, at 5:09 PM, Guido Barosio wrote:
> 
> > Don't know about such thing, but I guess that a plpgsql function
> > could help using datetime var's.
> >
> > Just a guess, don't know if the optimal solution.
> 
> 
> Yes, you can write one in plpgsql using timeofday, but it is horribly
> inefficient wastes CPU cycles busy looping. I use the version below
> for some simple testing, but it is not useful for a production
> system. It would be nice to have a sleep function that does not
> require anything beyond plpgsql.
> 
> 
> John DeSoi, Ph.D.
> http://pgedit.com/
> Power Tools for PostgreSQL
> 
> 
> 
> create or replace function sleep (integer) returns time as '
> declare
> seconds alias for $1;
> later time;
> thetime time;
> begin
> thetime := timeofday()::timestamp;
> later := thetime + (seconds::text || '' seconds'')::interval;
> loop
> if thetime >= later then
> exit;
> else
> thetime := timeofday()::timestamp;
> end if;
> end loop;
> 
> return later;
> end;
> ' language plpgsql;
> 



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