Re: gettimeofday is at the end of its usefulness?

On 15 May 2014 at 19:56, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:

> On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 06:58:11PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > A recent question from Tim Kane prompted me to measure the overhead
> > costs of EXPLAIN ANALYZE, which I'd not checked in awhile.  Things
> > are far worse than I thought.  On my current server (by no means
> > lavish hardware: Xeon E5-2609 @2.40GHz) a simple seqscan can run
> > at something like 110 nsec per row:
>
> I assume you ran pg_test_timing too:
>
>         Testing timing overhead for 3 seconds.
>         Per loop time including overhead: 41.70 nsec
>         Histogram of timing durations:
>         < usec   % of total      count
>              1     95.83035   68935459
>              2      4.16923    2999133
>              4      0.00037        268
>              8      0.00004         31
>             16      0.00000          1
>             32      0.00000          1
>
> My overhead of 41.70 nsec matches yours.
>

Did this idea die, or is it still worth considering?

Thom