Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com> writes:
> The thing was that with the extra +1, I was repeatedly getting a wall-clock
> time of 2 seconds with a timeout set to 1 second. It seemed odd to have my 1
> second timeout automatically turned into 2 seconds every time.
That is odd; seems like you should get between 1 and 2 seconds. How
were you measuring the delay, exactly?
regards, tom lane