Re: Reduce timing overhead of EXPLAIN ANALYZE using rdtsc?

From: Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: David Geier <geidav(dot)pg(at)gmail(dot)com>, vignesh C <vignesh21(at)gmail(dot)com>, Lukas Fittl <lukas(at)fittl(dot)com>, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, Ibrar Ahmed <ibrar(dot)ahmad(at)gmail(dot)com>, Maciek Sakrejda <m(dot)sakrejda(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Reduce timing overhead of EXPLAIN ANALYZE using rdtsc?
Date: 2023-01-16 20:39:04
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po 16. 1. 2023 v 21:34 odesílatel Tomas Vondra <
tomas(dot)vondra(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> napsal:

> Hi,
>
> there's minor bitrot in the Mkvcbuild.pm change, making cfbot unhappy.
>
> As for the patch, I don't have much comments. I'm wondering if it'd be
> useful to indicate which timing source was actually used for EXPLAIN
> ANALYZE, say something like:
>
> Planning time: 0.197 ms
> Execution time: 0.225 ms
> Timing source: clock_gettime (or tsc)
>
> There has been a proposal to expose this as a GUC (or perhaps as explain
> option), to allow users to pick what timing source to use. I wouldn't go
> that far - AFAICS is this is meant to be universally better when
> available. But knowing which source was used seems useful.
>

+1

Pavel

>
> regards
>
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> Tomas Vondra
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