On 2014-09-17 09:38:59 -0700, Tom Lane wrote: > On the Unix side, I know exactly what would happen to a > patch proposing that we replace gettimeofday() with clock_gettime() > with no thought for backwards compatibility.
Btw, do you plan to pursue clock_gettime()? It'd be really neat to have it... > > Quite aside from XP ... AFAICS from the patch description, this patch > in itself moves us to a place that's a net negative in terms of > functionality. Maybe it's a stepping stone to something better, but I > think we should just go directly to the something better. I don't > care for committing regressions on the promise that they'll get fixed > later. I don't think there's any regressions in that patch? Rather the contrary. I understand the comment about the timer tick to be just as applicable to the current code as the new version. Just that the old code can't possibly have a precision lower than 1ms, but the new one can. Greetings, Andres Freund -- Andres Freund http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
