Re: gettime() - a timeofday() alternative

On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 05:51:16AM +1000, Brendan Jurd wrote:
> Regarding the statement_timestamp() ... if the entire query path is
> parser -> rewriter -> planner/optimiser -> executor, what point in
> that path would be considered the true start of the "statement"? I
> would assume that it's right at the beginning, when it is first handed
> to the parser, but that's a very naive assumption.

The latest time before any index or table has been accessed to derive
results?

For prepared statements, for example, the time the statement was prepared
doesn't seem useful to me.

Cheers,
mark

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