Re: sleep?

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> 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?

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