On Wednesday 10 October 2007 01:00, Jasbinder Singh Bali wrote:
> I'm using Postgresql Version 8.1.4. on fedora core 6
> I'm pretty sure that pg_sleep is not implemented in 8.1.
> Am not sure what is the work around
>
Yeah can code your own sleep function in plpgsql, but it tends to be resource
intensive. Better would probably be to use an external lang, like this:
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION otools.sleep(integer)
RETURNS integer
AS $$
my ($seconds) = @_; return sleep($seconds);
$$ LANGUAGE 'PLPERLU';
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