Re: SQL - How to iterate with delay in a loop
Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>
From: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>
To: "Subramanian,Ramachandran" <ramachandran.subramanian@alte-leipziger.de>,
"pgsql-novice@lists.postgresql.org" <pgsql-novice@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2026-03-06T13:20:58Z
Lists: pgsql-novice
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