Re: current_timestamp after queries

Yes, timeofday() will work, but it can change during the statement, right?

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Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 11:44:17AM +0200, Guido Staub wrote:
>
> [some current_timestamp stuff]
>
> > I think that the accuracy is not good enough because I've started two
> > BEGIN statements and some time is elapsing between them. Am I right?
> > Or does anybody know a better solution to store the elapsed time after
> > some queries without writing some code in C or JAVA?
>
> Perhaps you're looking for timeofday()?
>
> kleptog=# begin; select timeofday(); select timeofday(); commit;
> BEGIN
> timeofday
> -------------------------------------
> Mon Sep 30 19:54:41.559605 2002 EST
> (1 row)
>
> timeofday
> -------------------------------------
> Mon Sep 30 19:54:41.560018 2002 EST
> (1 row)
>
> COMMIT
>
> Hope this helps,
> --
> Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> http://svana.org/kleptog/
> > There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those that can do binary
> > arithmetic and those that can't.
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