Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: In the stats test, delay for the stats collector

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Michael Fuhr <mike(at)fuhr(dot)org>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)svr1(dot)postgresql(dot)org>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: In the stats test, delay for the stats collector
Date: 2005-07-23 14:54:22
Message-ID: 200507231454.j6NEsMS09631@candle.pha.pa.us
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Michael Fuhr wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 23, 2005 at 11:18:57AM -0300, Tom Lane wrote:
> > In the stats test, delay for the stats collector to catch up using a
> > function that actually sleeps, instead of busy-waiting. Perhaps this
> > will resolve some of the intermittent stats failures we keep seeing.
>
> Any chance of exposing a sleep function to the user? It's admittedly
> of limited utility and it can usually be done on the client side,
> but I've occasionally wanted one for testing with simple SQL scripts.
> In such cases I end up writing a one-liner with PL/Perl, PL/Tcl, etc.

Agreed --- I was thinking the same thing.

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