Rod Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > After the first few sleeps should it add a random() element to the delay > time?
Hmm, that's a thought --- but how big a random element? Fooling with the original idea, I'm having trouble with getting both plausible backoff and a reasonable number of attempts before failing. I tried the sequence 10 msec, 20 msec, 40, 80, ..., 1280 (1.28 sec), repeat but this only gives a couple of hundred tries before one minute has elapsed, which seems uncomfortably low. Maybe there's no alternative, though, if we want any good-sized delays in there. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly