Sleep function

Question

Hi,
I have used sleep function in my pl/sql code. I have written the code as below:
create or replace package ab is
procedure def ;
PROCEDURE TEST_SLEEP(TIME1 NUMBER);
end ab;
create or replace package body ab is
PROCEDURE TEST_SLEEP
TIME1 IN NUMBER
) IS
BEGIN
DBMS_LOCK.sleep(TIME1);
END TEST_SLEEP;
procedure def is
begin
for i in 1 .. 5 loop
if i=5 then
TEST_SLEEP(i);
DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(I);
end if;
if i=1 then
TEST_SLEEP(i);
DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(I);
end if;
if i=3 then
TEST_SLEEP(i);
DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(I);
end if;
if i=4 then
TEST_SLEEP(i);
DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(I);
end if;
end loop;
end def;
end ab;
and every time iam calling that procedure to sleep for some time and display the output through def procedure. But in this the output is displaying for all conditions at the end of execution.
any one help me please.
Regards,
Bharat G.

Answer 1

starter wrote:
ya we can recode it to simplify the code. But my requirement is to print the output that shows the time difference of an execution. That does not mean that one can now forget about simplifying the code. The art of programming is to achieve the requirements with as few lines of code as possible. Simplicity is the ultimate form of elegance.
At the end of procedure execution the output is displaying normally, but i want the output to display everytime it satisfies the condition. By this I can see that its delaying the execution everytime when it enters into the conditional statements.Do not really understand what the requirement is that you describe. Keep in mind that PL/SQL code is server-side code. It run inside a server process.
So the client makes a PL/SQL: begin MyPackage.FooProc( :var1 ); end;
This is received by the server. Is parsed. Is executed. And the COMPLETE call is executed. Including all DBMS_OUTPUT calls.
The call is completed. The client gets the response code that says it was successful.
The client now makes another call - it requests the DBMS_OUTPUT buffer from the session. It receives the contents from the server and renders it.
DBMS_OUTPUT is NOT an interactive display device. It does NOT write to the client display.