On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 11:20 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
>> On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 9:52 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>>> I imagine the reason for the original coding was to avoid a useless
>>> gettimeofday kernel call in the common case that there are no
>>> conflicting xacts to wait for. Could we restore that behavior?
>
>> Something like the attached?
>
> I would just add the return-at-the-top. Changing the loop logic is
> not necessary --- the loop test is cheap.
Hmm... that's a fine bit of hairsplitting, but OK.
Done that way, then.
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