Re: Unportable use of select for timeouts in PostgresNode.pm

On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 4:48 PM, Andrew Dunstan
<andrew(dot)dunstan(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> This is a usage that is known not to work in Windows - IIRC we
> eliminated such calls from our C programs at the time of the Windows
> port - and it seems to me very likely to be the cause of the hang.
> Instead I think we should use the usleep() function from the standard
> (from 5.8) Perl module Time::HiRes, as recommended in the Perl docs for
> the sleep() function for situations where you need finer grained
> timeouts. I have verified that this works on jacana and friends.

Looking at my boxes (Arch, Mac, Windows), Time::Hires looks to be part
of the core set of packages, so there is visibly no real need to
incorporate a check in configure.in. So +1 for doing as you suggest.
--
Michael