Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2021 14:49:31 -0300
From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Nitin Jadhav <nitinjadhavpostgres@gmail.com>,
	Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>,
	Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>,
	Bharath Rupireddy <bharath.rupireddyforpostgres@gmail.com>,
	Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>,
	Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>,
	Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>,
	Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>,
	"pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: when the startup process doesn't (logging startup delays)
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On 2021-Sep-29, Robert Haas wrote:

> Well, this was my suggestion, because if you don't do this, you get
> drift, which I think looks weird. Like the timestamps will be:
> 
> 13:41:05.012456
> 13:41:15.072484
> 13:41:25.149632
> 
> ...and it gets further and further off as it goes on.'

Right ... I actually *expect* this drift to occur.  Maybe people
generally don't like this, it just seems natural to me.  Are there other
opinions on this aspect?

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