Re: usleep feature for pgbench

Jan Wieck <JanWieck@Yahoo.com> writes:
> To test some changes in Slony I needed a
>      \usleep [microseconds|:variable]
> in pgbench's scripting language to be able to have hundreds of 
> concurrent running transactions without totally swamping the system. I 
> was wondering if anyone would object to permanently adding this to the 
> pgbench code?

How's it implemented?  Does the whole pgbench app freeze up for the
duration of the sleep, or does it just delay that one client script?
        regards, tom lane