Re: sleep?

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Michael Fuhr <mike(at)fuhr(dot)org>
Cc: 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 14:24:37
Message-ID: 200508221424.j7MEObk10012@candle.pha.pa.us
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Michael Fuhr wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 08:34:29AM -0500, Don Drake wrote:
> > I agree that a basic function (non-CPU intensive sleep) like this should be
> > built in.
>
> It's being discussed in pgsql-hackers:
>
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2005-08/msg00633.php
>
> 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.

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