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Re: patch to add \watch to psql

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>

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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Daniel Farina <daniel@heroku.com>, Will Leinweber <will@heroku.com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams@2ndquadrant.com>
Date: 2013-03-26T21:14:22Z
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On 3/24/13 3:10 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> I also concur with the complaint here
> http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAAZKuFZxyj-RT1aeC6s0g7zM68tDLfbBM1R6HGrbbxnz80KcoA@mail.gmail.com
> that allowing a minimum sleep of 0 is rather dangerous

The original "watch" command apparently silently corrects a delay of 0
to 0.1 seconds.

> Another minor question is whether we really need the time-of-day in the
> banner,

That's also part of the original "watch" and occasionally useful, I think.