| From: | Ron <rjpeace(at)earthlink(dot)net> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org,pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] EXPLAIN ANALYZE on 8.2 |
| Date: | 2006-12-15 16:55:52 |
| Message-ID: | E1GvGLm-0000St-8t@elasmtp-galgo.atl.sa.earthlink.net |
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At 10:45 AM 12/15/2006, Tom Lane wrote:
>Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> writes:
> > There are various attempts at providing better timing infrastructure at low
> > overhead but I'm not sure what's out there currently. I expect to
> do this what
> > we'll have to do is invent a pg_* abstraction that has various
> implementations
> > on different architectures.
>
>You've got to be kidding. Surely it's glibc's responsibility, not ours,
>to implement gettimeofday correctly for the hardware.
>
> regards, tom lane
I agree with Tom on this. Perhaps the best compromise is for the pg
community to make thoughtful suggestions to the glibc community?
Ron Peacetree
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