Re: Sleep functions

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> In any case, I wonder how many people, not having a sleep() function,
> effect a delay with a busy loop; an example of such has been posted
> in response to the thread in pgsql-admin, and didn't the regression
> tests do so until recently?  That seems less desirable than a real
> sleep().

Exactly. If people are going to do it anyways, we might as well provide
a better interface. And sleep() is going to be less expensive than
any home-brewed sleep simulation.

> To others who've written their own sleep() function: what are you
> using it for?

To properly emulate other, slower, RDBMSs? :)

To simulate long-running queries without actually invoking them, and
to simulate concurrency of shorter queries.

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