Re: pg_arch.c call to sleep()

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pg_arch.c call to sleep()
Date: 2004-11-07 19:28:20
Message-ID: 23379.1099855700@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
> We have the following warning on Windows:
> pgarch.c:349: warning: implicit declaration of function `sleep'

> To fix it we could include the right header (which appears to be
> <stdlib.h> in the Windows/Mingw case), or we could replace the call by a
> call to pg_usleep().

<stdlib.h> is included automatically by c.h, so that surely won't fix it.

I have some recollection that we invented pg_usleep in part because we
wanted to not use sleep() at all in the backend, but I don't recall why
(and the reasoning might not apply to the archiver process, anyway).

regards, tom lane

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