At 10:45 AM 12/15/2006, Tom Lane wrote:
>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
I agree with Tom on this. Perhaps the best compromise is for the pg
community to make thoughtful suggestions to the glibc community?
Ron Peacetree