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. -- Michael Fuhr