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