Re: sleep?

From: "Greg Sabino Mullane" <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com>
To: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: sleep?
Date: 2005-08-21 20:03:03
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> Is there a sleep function in plpgsql? I need to wait a period time
> 60 seconds) in a while loop.

You will need to us another language, such as plperl. You could
certainly create a sleep function and have your plpgsql call that:

CREATE FUNCTION sleep(INT) RETURNS TEXT LANGUAGE plperl AS
$$
select(undef,undef,undef,shift);
return "Time to wake up!";
$$;

SELECT sleep(2);

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