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To: Subramanian,Ramachandran <[email protected]>
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Subject: Re: SQL - How to iterate with delay in a loop
Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2026 14:20:58 +0100
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On Fri, 2026-03-06 at 12:07 +0000, Subramanian,Ramachandran wrote:
> I am trying to insert some rows into a table with a delay between each insert.
> I have a simple table with a ID column and some Date-Time columns.
>
> The first two inserts work as expected and insert two rows, each one second apart.
>
> However the do loop inserts 25 more rows, with the same timestamp.
Use clock_timestamp()::time instead of current_time.
current_time returns the same value for each call in the same
database transaction. Think of it as "transaction start time".
Yours,
Laurenz Albe
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