Re: [PERFORM] EXPLAIN ANALYZE on 8.2 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Ron
Subject Re: [PERFORM] EXPLAIN ANALYZE on 8.2
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Msg-id E1GvGLm-0000St-8t@elasmtp-galgo.atl.sa.earthlink.net
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In response to Re: [PERFORM] EXPLAIN ANALYZE on 8.2  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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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


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