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. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us pgman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073