Re: [PERFORM] Help with tuning this query (with explain analyze finally)

"Dave Held" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.db.postgresql.devel.win32,gmane.comp.db.postgresql.performance
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Lane [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 4:30 PM
> To: Ken Egervari
> Cc: [email protected]; 
> [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [PERFORM] Help with tuning this query (with 
> explain analyze
> finally)
> 
> [...]
> Well, what it suggests is that gettimeofday() is only 
> returning a result good to the nearest millisecond.  (Win32
> hackers, does that sound right?)

No.  There's no such thing as gettimeofday() in Win32.  So it
must be making some other call, or perhaps an emulation.

> [...]
> Most modern machines seem to have clocks that can count elapsed
> time down to near the microsecond level.  Anyone know if it's 
> possible to get such numbers out of Windows, or are we stuck with
> milliseconds?

QueryPerformanceCounter() is your friend.

http://lists.boost.org/MailArchives/boost/msg45626.php

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