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From Tom Lane
Subject Re: gettimeofday() goes backwards on FreeBSD 4.9
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In response to Re: gettimeofday() goes backwards on FreeBSD 4.9  ("Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org>)
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"Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org> writes:
>> 15 minutes of error is acceptable?

> Apparently *shrug*  That was just the first answer back though, so we'll
> see what happens ...

BTW, it seems from this thread that the BIND guys have seen even more
bogus behavior than this from gettimeofday() on BSD.  Their attitude is
clearly "BSD is broken":

http://www.isc.org/ml-archives/bind-users/2001/01/msg01246.html

        regards, tom lane

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