Date: 2020-01-22 10:24:09 +0100
From: @yzchang
To: SQL devs <>
Version: -- development
CC: @PedroTadim

Last updated: 2020-06-03 16:58:52 +0200

Comment 27515

Date: 2020-01-22 10:24:09 +0100
From: @yzchang

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It would be nice to have a sleep procedure in SQL (e.g. for testing). Maybe we can add the following definition in the default supported SQL procedures:

create procedure sys.sleep(secs int) external name alarm.sleep;

Reproducible: Always

Comment 27516

Date: 2020-01-23 11:42:00 +0100
From: MonetDB Mercurial Repository <>

Changeset 09bf17ab6c98 made by Pedro Ferreira pedro.ferreira@monetdbsolutions.com in the MonetDB repo, refers to this bug.

For complete details, see https//devmonetdborg/hg/MonetDB?cmd=changeset;node=09bf17ab6c98

Changeset description:

Added sleep as a procedure and function at the SQL layer. The ALARMsleep functions sleeps for milliseconds instead of seconds for greater precision. This fixes bug #6808