Tom Lane wrote: > Bruce Momjian <pgman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > Michael Fuhr wrote: > >> 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. > > ... and you'll notice that the regression test that uses it is still > failing intermittently on some of the buildfarm machines, which rather > calls the whole approach into question ... It means that our use of sleep() wasn't the fix, but we need it to try, didn't we? -- 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
