In the little fix I came up with for psql last night, I need to be able to ensure that something sent to a pipe (and then to stdout) completes before issuing the prompt directly to stdout.
I did this with: "system ('sleep 1');", but I'm fairly sure that is not portable nor does it ENSURE completion. What's the proper way to do this? And what's a good book on writing portable code? -- Mike Nolan ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend