Re: [PATCH] pgbench: improve \sleep meta command

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>
To: "kuroda(dot)hayato(at)fujitsu(dot)com" <kuroda(dot)hayato(at)fujitsu(dot)com>
Cc: 'Fujii Masao' <masao(dot)fujii(at)oss(dot)nttdata(dot)com>, 'miyake_kouta' <miyake_kouta(at)oss(dot)nttdata(dot)com>, Pgsql Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pgbench: improve \sleep meta command
Date: 2021-03-08 14:10:26
Message-ID: 20210308141026.GA23615@alvherre.pgsql
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On 2021-Mar-08, kuroda(dot)hayato(at)fujitsu(dot)com wrote:

> Dear Fujii-san, Miyake-san
>
> > Isn't it better to accept even negative sleep time like currently pgbench does?
> > Otherwise we always need to check the variable is a positive integer
> > (for example, using \if command) when using it as the sleep time in \sleep
> > command. That seems inconvenient.
>
> Both of them are acceptable for me.
> But we should write down how it works when the negative value is input if we adopt.

Not sleeping at all seems a good reaction (same as for zero, I guess.)

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