Tom Lane wrote: > Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > We have the following warning on Windows: > > pgarch.c:349: warning: implicit declaration of function `sleep' > > > To fix it we could include the right header (which appears to be > > <stdlib.h> in the Windows/Mingw case), or we could replace the call by a > > call to pg_usleep(). > > <stdlib.h> is included automatically by c.h, so that surely won't fix it. > > I have some recollection that we invented pg_usleep in part because we > wanted to not use sleep() at all in the backend, but I don't recall why > (and the reasoning might not apply to the archiver process, anyway).
I think usleep was so we could accept signals during the sleep. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
