From b8a3b20bed6232eb2b0b46b351662d88848e08c7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: jbranchaud <jbranchaud@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2016 16:32:50 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Add Sleeping as a postgres til.

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 README.md            |  1 +
 postgres/sleeping.md | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 33 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 postgres/sleeping.md

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 77ce5f1..6953f6c 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -150,6 +150,7 @@ smart people at [Hashrocket](http://hashrocket.com/).
 - [Restarting Sequences When Truncating Tables](postgres/restarting-sequences-when-truncating-tables.md)
 - [Send A Command To psql](postgres/send-a-command-to-psql.md)
 - [Set Inclusion With hstore](postgres/set-inclusion-with-hstore.md)
+- [Sleeping](postgres/sleeping.md)
 - [Special Math Operators](postgres/special-math-operators.md)
 - [String Contains Another String](postgres/string-contains-another-string.md)
 - [Temporarily Disable Triggers](postgres/temporarily-disable-triggers.md)
diff --git a/postgres/sleeping.md b/postgres/sleeping.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4ca08f8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/postgres/sleeping.md
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+# Sleeping
+
+Generally you want your SQL statements to run against your database as
+quickly as possible. For those times when you are doing some sort of
+debugging or just want your queries to look very computationally expensive,
+PostgreSQL offers the `pg_sleep` function.
+
+To sleep for 5 seconds, try the following:
+
+```sql
+> select now(); select pg_sleep(5); select now();
+              now
+-------------------------------
+ 2016-01-08 16:30:21.251081-06
+(1 row)
+
+Time: 0.274 ms
+ pg_sleep
+----------
+
+(1 row)
+
+Time: 5001.459 ms
+              now
+-------------------------------
+ 2016-01-08 16:30:26.252953-06
+(1 row)
+
+Time: 0.260 ms
+```
+
+As you'll notice, the `pg_sleep` statement took about 5 seconds.