On 2023-Feb-09, Nathan Bossart wrote: > I just found myself carefully counting the zeros in a call to pg_usleep(). > Besides getting my eyes checked, perhaps there should be a wrapper called > pg_ssleep() than can be used for multisecond sleeps. Or maybe the > USECS_PER_SEC macro should be used more widely. I attached a patch for the > former approach. I don't have a strong opinion, but I do think it's worth > improving readability a bit here.
Hmm, it seems about half the patch would go away if you were to add a PostAuthDelaySleep() function. > @@ -2976,7 +2976,7 @@ _bt_pendingfsm_finalize(Relation rel, BTVacState > *vstate) > * never be effective without some other backend concurrently consuming > an > * XID. > */ > - pg_usleep(5000000L); > + pg_ssleep(5); Maybe for these cases where a WaitLatch is not desired, it'd be simpler to do pg_usleep (5L * 1000 * 1000); -- Álvaro Herrera 48°01'N 7°57'E — https://www.EnterpriseDB.com/ "I am amazed at [the pgsql-sql] mailing list for the wonderful support, and lack of hesitasion in answering a lost soul's question, I just wished the rest of the mailing list could be like this." (Fotis) (http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-sql/2006-06/msg00265.php)
