Re: [GENERAL] Confirming \timing output

2012-08-23 Thread John R Pierce
On 08/23/12 7:31 PM, Craig Ringer wrote: 0.524 MILLIseconds. as in 524 microseconds. microseconds is commonly abbreviated us. They should be µs ; (micro µ seconds s). Sadly, many setups still can't type anything outside 7-bit ASCII even in 2012 yeah, I know I could enter the alt+xyz e

Re: [GENERAL] Confirming \timing output

2012-08-23 Thread Craig Ringer
On 08/24/2012 02:30 AM, John R Pierce wrote: On 08/23/12 11:13 AM, Gauthier, Dave wrote: Time: 0.524 ms Is that really 0.524 ms? As in 524 nanoseconds? 0.524 MILLIseconds. as in 524 microseconds. microseconds is commonly abbreviated us. They should be µs ; (micro µ seconds s). Sadly,

Re: [GENERAL] Confirming \timing output

2012-08-23 Thread John R Pierce
On 08/23/12 11:13 AM, Gauthier, Dave wrote: Time: 0.524 ms Is that really 0.524 ms? As in 524 nanoseconds? 0.524 MILLIseconds. as in 524 microseconds. microseconds is commonly abbreviated us. afaik, its elapsed time, not CPU time. -- john r pierceN 37, W 1

Re: [GENERAL] Confirming \timing output

2012-08-23 Thread Steven Schlansker
On Aug 23, 2012, at 11:13 AM, "Gauthier, Dave" wrote: > With \timing set on, I run an update statement and it reports > > Time: 0.524 ms > > Is that really 0.524 ms? As in 524 nanoseconds? 0.524ms = 524000ns Perhaps you meant microseconds? 0.524ms = 524us If all your data happens to