Re: pgbench logging broken by time logic changes

From: Fabien COELHO <coelho(at)cri(dot)ensmp(dot)fr>
To: Yugo NAGATA <nagata(at)sraoss(dot)co(dot)jp>
Cc: Gregory Smith <gregsmithpgsql(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, david(dot)christensen(at)crunchydata(dot)com
Subject: Re: pgbench logging broken by time logic changes
Date: 2021-06-16 19:11:41
Message-ID: alpine.DEB.2.22.394.2106162102030.2407635@pseudo
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> pg_time_now(). This uses INSTR_TIME_SET_CURRENT in it, but this macro
> can call clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC[_RAW], ) instead of gettimeofday
> or clock_gettime(CLOCK_REALTIME, ). When CLOCK_MONOTONIC[_RAW] is used,
> clock_gettime doesn't return epoch time. Therefore, we can use
> INSTR_TIME_SET_CURRENT aiming to calculate a duration, but we should
> not have used this to get the current timestamp.
>
> I think we can fix this issue by using gettimeofday for logging as before
> this was changed. I attached the patch.

I cannot say that I'm thrilled by having multiple tv stuff back in several
place. I can be okay with one, though. What about the attached? Does it
make sense?

--
Fabien.

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pgbench-epoch-1.patch text/x-diff 538 bytes

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