Re: pg_background contrib module proposal

From: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>
To: amborodin(at)acm(dot)org
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, amul sul <sulamul(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pg_background contrib module proposal
Date: 2016-12-18 23:21:09
Message-ID: 20161218232109.GB12740@fetter.org
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On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 10:17:24PM +0500, Andrew Borodin wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Just in case you'd like to include sleepsort as a test, here it is
> wrapped as a regression test(see attachment). But it has serious
> downside: it runs no less than 5 seconds.

Couldn't it sleep in increments smaller than a second? Like maybe
milliseconds? Also, it's probably cleaner (or at least more
comprehensible) to write something using format() and dollar quoting
than the line with the double 's.

Best,
David.
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