On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 02:17:44AM -0400, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > The script analyze_new_cluster.sh output by pg_upgrade contains several > "sleep" calls (see contrib/pg_upgrade/check.c). What is the point of > this? If the purpose of this script is to get the database operational > again as soon as possible, waiting a few seconds doing nothing surely > isn't helping. > > I could maybe see the point of waiting a bit between the different > vacuumdb calls, to catch some breath, but the one before the first call > to vacuumdb is highly dubious to me.
The sleep is there so the user can read the status message, in case it scrolls off the screen once the next stage starts. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + It's impossible for everything to be true. + -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
