Re: sleep?

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.

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