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The advantage of clock_gettime() is that the API allows the result to be precise to nanoseconds, not just microseconds as in gettimeofday(). Now that it's routinely possible to do tens of plan node executions in 1us, we really need more precision than gettimeofday() can offer for EXPLAIN ANALYZE to accumulate statistics with. Some research shows that clock_gettime() is available on pretty nearly every modern Unix-ish platform, and as far as I have been able to test, it has about the same execution time as gettimeofday(), so there's no loss in switching over. (By the same token, this doesn't do anything to fix the fact that we really wish clock readings were faster. But there's enough win here to justify changing anyway.) A small side benefit is that on most platforms, we can use CLOCK_MONOTONIC instead of CLOCK_REALTIME and thereby render EXPLAIN impervious to concurrent resets of the system clock. (This means that code must not assume that the contents of struct instr_time have any well-defined interpretation as timestamps, but really that was true before.) Some platforms offer nonstandard clock IDs that might be of interest. This patch knows we should use CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW on macOS, because it provides more precision and is faster to read than their CLOCK_MONOTONIC. If there turn out to be many more cases where we need special rules, it might be appropriate to handle the selection of clock ID in configure, but for the moment that doesn't seem worth the trouble. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/31856.1400021891@sss.pgh.pa.us
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