Re: [PATCH] pg_sleep(interval)

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:

> Anyone who actually wants this in their environment can
> add the overloaded function in their environment with a one-line SQL
> function: pg_sleep(interval) as proposed here is just
> pg_sleep(extract(epoch from now() + $1) - extract(epoch from now())).

You're making it sound way harder than it is.  Why not just:

create function my_sleep(delay interval)
  returns void language sql
  as 'select pg_sleep(extract(epoch from $1))';

... or,  of course, named to match the existing function.

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