Re: review: pgbench - aggregation of info written into log

On 01/16/2013 08:05 PM, Tatsuo Ishii wrote:
>>> It seems instr_time.h on Windows simply does not provide current
>>> timestamp. From pgbench.c:
>>>
>>>         /*
>>>          * if transaction finished, record the time it took in the log
>>>          */
>>>         if (logfile && commands[st->state + 1] == NULL)
>>>         {
>>>             instr_time    now;
>>>             instr_time    diff;
>>>             double        usec;
>>>
>>>             INSTR_TIME_SET_CURRENT(now);
>>>             diff = now;
>>>             INSTR_TIME_SUBTRACT(diff, st->txn_begin);
>>>             usec = (double) INSTR_TIME_GET_MICROSEC(diff);
>>>
>>> #ifndef WIN32
>>>             /* This is more than we really ought to know about instr_time */
>>>             fprintf(logfile, "%d %d %.0f %d %ld %ld\n",
>>>                     st->id, st->cnt, usec, st->use_file,
>>>                     (long) now.tv_sec, (long) now.tv_usec);
>>> #else
>>>             /* On Windows, instr_time doesn't provide a timestamp anyway */
>>>             fprintf(logfile, "%d %d %.0f %d 0 0\n",
>>>                     st->id, st->cnt, usec, st->use_file);
>>> #endif
>>>         }
>>
>> This might be way more than we want to do, but there is an article
>> that describes some techniques for doing what seems to be missing
>> (AIUI):
>>
>> <http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc163996.aspx>
> Even this would be doable, I'm afraid it may not fit in 9.3 if we
> think about the current status of CF. So our choice would be:
>
> 1) Postpone the patch to 9.4
>
> 2) Commit the patch in 9.3 without Windows support
>
> I personally am ok with #2. We traditionally avoid particular paltform
> specific features on PostgreSQL.  However I think the policiy could be
> losen for contrib staffs. Also pgbench is just a client program. We
> could always use pgbench on UNIX/Linux if we truely need the feature.
>
> What do you think?

Fair enough, I was just trying to point out alternatives. We have 
committed platform-specific features before now. I hope it doesn't just 
get left like this, though.

cheers

andrew