Jasbinder Singh Bali wrote:
my loop is a busy wait and keeps iterating until a=b condition is met.
However, it would lead to millions of instructions executing per second.
So to save resources, I want to keep a sleep before re-iterating. Don't
understand how is SLEEP disastrous here even if i don't know when is my loop
going to end
What if it takes a week?
That means you'll have a transaction open for a week blocking vacuum
from reclaiming space.
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Richard Huxton
Archonet Ltd
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