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Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2007 18:08:11 -0400
From: Jan Wieck <JanWieck@Yahoo.com>
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To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
CC: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: usleep feature for pgbench
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On 7/7/2007 11:40 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
>> Jan Wieck wrote:
>>> You mean as a second, optional argument? Good idea.
> 
>> I think it should only be one argument, with the units being part of the 
>> variable value, if any.
> 
> No, because that makes it hard to do things like "sleep for a small
> random number of microseconds".  If pgbench had string concatenation
> ability in its metalanguage then what you suggest would be sensible,
> but let us not go there.

That is exactly the reason why I made it an optional argument. The usage 
example in the README file shows how to actually do a random sleep 
between 1000 and 2500 ms.


Jan

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