Re: Reduce timing overhead of EXPLAIN ANALYZE using rdtsc?

Hi,

On 2023-01-20 22:27:07 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> >> Perhaps an INSTR_TIME_ZERO() that could be assigned in variable definitions
> >> could give us the best of both worlds?
> 
> > I tried that in the attached 0005. I found that it reads better if I also add
> > INSTR_TIME_CURRENT(). If we decide to go for this, I'd roll it into 0001
> > instead, but I wanted to get agreement on it first.
> 
> -1 from here.  This forecloses the possibility that it's best to use more
> than one assignment to initialize the value, and the code doesn't read
> any better than it did before.

I think it does read a bit better, but it's a pretty small improvement. So
I'll leave this aspect be for now.

Thanks for checking.

Greetings,

Andres Freund