Re: [Windows,PATCH] Use faster, higher precision timer API

On 2014-09-17 09:38:59 -0700, Tom Lane wrote:
> On the Unix side, I know exactly what would happen to a
> patch proposing that we replace gettimeofday() with clock_gettime()
> with no thought for backwards compatibility.

Btw, do you plan to pursue clock_gettime()? It'd be really neat to have
it...

> 
> Quite aside from XP ... AFAICS from the patch description, this patch
> in itself moves us to a place that's a net negative in terms of
> functionality.  Maybe it's a stepping stone to something better, but I
> think we should just go directly to the something better.  I don't
> care for committing regressions on the promise that they'll get fixed
> later.

I don't think there's any regressions in that patch? Rather the
contrary. I understand the comment about the timer tick to be just as
applicable to the current code as the new version. Just that the old
code can't possibly have a precision lower than 1ms, but the new one
can.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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