Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> On 18.07.2011 18:32, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Hmm. Well, it's not too late to rethink the WaitLatch API, if we think
>> that that might be a significant limitation.
> Right, we can easily change the timeout argument to be in milliseconds
> instead of microseconds.
On the whole I'd be more worried about giving up the shorter waits than
the longer ones --- it's not too hard to imagine using submillisecond
timeouts in the future, as machines get faster. If we really wanted to
fix this, I think we need to move to a wider datatype.
regards, tom lane