Re: RE: [COMMITTERS] pgsql/src/backend/access/transam ( xact.c xlog.c)

* Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> [001116 14:02]:
> > > This sounds like an interesting approach, yes.
> > Question: Is sleep(0) guaranteed to at least give up control? 
> > 
> > The way I read my UnixWare 7's man page, it might not, since alarm(0)
> > just cancels the alarm...
> 
> Well, it certainly is a kernel call, and most OS's re-evaluate on kernel
> call return.
BUT, do we know for sure that sleep(0) is not optimized in the library
to just return? 
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