Re: What is a typical precision of gettimeofday()?

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

To: Bernd Helmle <mailings@oopsware.de>

Cc: Hannu Krosing <hannuk@google.com>, "Andrey M. Borodin" <x4mmm@yandex-team.ru>, Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Date: 2025-07-11T15:27:29Z

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Force LC_NUMERIC to C while running TAP tests.
- f25792c541e5 19 (unreleased) landed
Minor tweaks for pg_test_timing.
- 9dcc7641444f 19 (unreleased) landed
Change pg_test_timing to measure in nanoseconds not microseconds.
- 0b096e379e6f 19 (unreleased) landed

Bernd Helmle <mailings@oopsware.de> writes:
> FYI, since this commit TAP test pg_test_timing/001_basic on my machine
> with de_DE.UTF8 locale keeps failing with:
> ...
> Of course this is because of the localized comma in 99,9900%

Ah.  I had the idea that we forced C locale in TAP tests,
but evidently that's not happening here.  Will fix, thanks
for the report!

			regards, tom lane