Track I/O timing for temporary file blocks in EXPLAIN (BUFFERS)

Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>

Commit: efb0ef909f605817da6b77c1f3fef0a24457ec16
Author: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Date: 2022-04-08T02:27:21Z
Releases: 15.0
Track I/O timing for temporary file blocks in EXPLAIN (BUFFERS)

Previously, the output of EXPLAIN (BUFFERS) option showed only the I/O
timing spent reading and writing shared and local buffers.  This commit
adds on top of that the I/O timing for temporary buffers in the output
of EXPLAIN (for spilled external sorts, hashes, materialization. etc).
This can be helpful for users in cases where the I/O related to
temporary buffers is the bottleneck.

Like its cousin, this information is available only when track_io_timing
is enabled.  Playing the patch, this is showing an extra overhead of up
to 1% even when using gettimeofday() as implementation for interval
timings, which is slightly within the usual range noise still that's
measurable.

Author: Masahiko Sawada
Reviewed-by: Georgios Kokolatos, Melanie Plageman, Julien Rouhaud,
Ranier Vilela
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAD21AoAJgotTeP83p6HiAGDhs_9Fw9pZ2J=_tYTsiO5Ob-V5GQ@mail.gmail.com

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