From: Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org
Subject: Re: gettimeofday is at the end of its usefulness?
Date: Thu, 15 May 2014 13:21:08 +0200
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Hi,
On 2014-05-13 18:58:11 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Anyway it looks like clock_gettime() might be worth using on Linux
> just for the more precise output. It doesn't seem to exist on OS X
> though, and I have no idea about elsewhere.
Agreed that using clock_gettime() would be a good idea. I'd say we
should have a wrapper around it that is able to provide nanosecond
precision. If only gettimeofday() (and whatever windows is using) is
available, we can dynamically fall back to that.
> I'm curious if anybody has ideas about other things we might do for
> portable high-precision timing.
It's far from a solve-it-all, but can we perhaps try to coalesce
repeated time measurements? We'll very frequently do a
InstrStopNode();
/* minimal amount of work */
InstrStartNode();
which will measure the time twice. I think there's a fair number of
scenarios where once would be enough. I'll freely admit that I haven't
looked enough to determine how we could do that API wise.
Greetings,
Andres Freund
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