Re: [PATCH] pg_sleep(interval)

On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 4:34 PM, Kevin Grittner <kgrittn@ymail.com> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Anyone who actually wants this in their environment can
>> add the overloaded function in their environment with a one-line SQL
>> function: pg_sleep(interval) as proposed here is just
>> pg_sleep(extract(epoch from now() + $1) - extract(epoch from now())).
>
> You're making it sound way harder than it is.  Why not just:
>
> create function my_sleep(delay interval)
>   returns void language sql
>   as 'select pg_sleep(extract(epoch from $1))';
>
> ... or,  of course, named to match the existing function.

Because that might or might not do the right thing if the interval is 1 month.

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