Re: Timing overhead and Linux clock sources

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com>, Ants Aasma <ants.aasma@eesti.ee>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2012-08-27T20:42:34Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 1:18 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> He wrote it that way to allow for simpler C code --- he could just start
> from 31 and keeping skipping entries until he hit a non-zero.
>
> My format makes it easy to see which line should have the majority of
> the entries, e.g. first line should be > 90%.  I doubt there are enough
> people running this cross-version that consistency in output makes any
> difference between major PG versions.

I don't see why it's better for the first line to have a big number
than the last line.  What difference does it make?

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Robert Haas
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