Re: Timing of 'SELECT 1'

Neil Conway wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > I am timing small queries, and found that a PREPARE/EXECUTE of
> > "SELECT 1" takes about 1.2ms on my machine. A normal SELECT doesn't
> > take much longer, so I am wondering why a simpler query isn't
> > faster.
>
> log_executor_stats output isn't really too helpful -- if you can get
> some gprof or oprofile output, we might have a better chance of seeing
> if there is anything we can improve.

The problem with gprof is that I am going to see all the backend startup
stuff too, no? Is there a way to get a dump just the run of the query?

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