Re: Better, consistent instrumentation for postgreSQL using a similar API as Oracle

From: Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>
To: Franck Pachot <pg(dot)franck(at)pachot(dot)net>, Jeff Holt <jeff(dot)holt(at)method-r(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-performance(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Better, consistent instrumentation for postgreSQL using a similar API as Oracle
Date: 2021-10-11 06:54:36
Message-ID: 0eec105c66409053f3e10f6d216c91600708c040.camel@cybertec.at
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On Mon, 2021-10-11 at 00:09 +0200, Franck Pachot wrote:
> And people will dislike it because it mentions Oracle.

I don't think so.
While "Oracle has it" is not a good enough reason for a feature, it
is certainly no counter-indication.

> Or people will dislike it because they think this should be reserved to commercial forks.

That is conceivable, but I think most vendors would prefer to have
that in standard PostgreSQL rather than having to maintain it on
their own.

> Or because it may introduce too much dependency on the OS.

That is possible. But I think gettimeofday(2) is portable enough.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe

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