| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Michael Fuhr <mike(at)fuhr(dot)org>, Don Drake <dondrake(at)gmail(dot)com>, John DeSoi <desoi(at)pgedit(dot)com>, Guido Barosio <gbarosio(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: sleep? |
| Date: | 2005-08-22 16:24:17 |
| Message-ID: | 200508221624.j7MGOHg12583@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > Michael Fuhr wrote:
> >> Do you have any use cases in addition to what's already been
> >> mentioned? Sleeping isn't really a database operation, so there
> >> needs to be some justification for making it a standard function.
>
> > Well, we needed it for our own regression tests, so I assume others
> > would need it as well.
>
> ... and you'll notice that the regression test that uses it is still
> failing intermittently on some of the buildfarm machines, which rather
> calls the whole approach into question ...
It means that our use of sleep() wasn't the fix, but we need it to try,
didn't we?
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