On Tue, 30 Aug 2022 at 19:46, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
On Fri, Aug 26, 2022 at 02:05:36PM +0100, Dave Page wrote: > On Thu, 25 Aug 2022 at 01:44, David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com> wrote: > I don't have a particular opinion about the patch, I'm just pointing > out that there are other ways. Even just writing down the numbers on a > post-it note and coming back in a month to see if they've changed is > enough to tell if the table or index has been used. > > > There are usually other ways to perform monitoring tasks, but there is > something to be said for the convenience of having functionality built in and > not having to rely on tools, scripts, or post-it notes :-)
Should we consider using something cheaper like time() so we don't need a GUC to enable this?
Interesting idea, but on my mac at least, 100,000,000 gettimeofday() calls takes about 2 seconds, whilst 100,000,000 time() calls takes 14(!) seconds.
