Re: [HACKERS] EXPLAIN ANALYZE on 8.2 - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: [HACKERS] EXPLAIN ANALYZE on 8.2
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Msg-id 9096.1166197556@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to EXPLAIN ANALYZE on 8.2  (Evgeny Gridasov <eugrid@fpm.kubsu.ru>)
Responses Re: [HACKERS] EXPLAIN ANALYZE on 8.2  (Gregory Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>)
Re: [HACKERS] EXPLAIN ANALYZE on 8.2  (Ron <rjpeace@earthlink.net>)
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Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> There are various attempts at providing better timing infrastructure at low
> overhead but I'm not sure what's out there currently. I expect to do this what
> we'll have to do is invent a pg_* abstraction that has various implementations
> on different architectures.

You've got to be kidding.  Surely it's glibc's responsibility, not ours,
to implement gettimeofday correctly for the hardware.

            regards, tom lane

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