On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 08:14, John DeSoi wrote:
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> On Aug 22, 2005, at 12:40 AM, Michael Fuhr wrote:
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> > To others who've written their own sleep() function: what are you
> > using it for?
>
>
> I need it for API and user interface testing. I want to be sure
> things behave correctly when a long running query is interrupted.
>
>
I know I've used one for a script that reindexes various tables on an
old 7.3 server. I put a sleep of 20 seconds between reindexes to let
built up transactions have a few moments to catch up, thereby smoothing
out i/o. For a long time I used a cpu hogging plpgsql version (since I
had cpu to spare) until I switched to a better pltcl version. If a
server side one existed I would certainly have used that.
Robert Treat
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