Re: instrumenting the driver

Dave Cramer wrote:
> There has been a request to instrument the driver for measuring timing.
>
> One mechanism that comes to mind is to allow one listener in execute,
> etc. Or to simply measure it ourselves.

I rather like the `dtrace` approach in Solaris 10.. It provides instrument
hooks for all kinds of stuff but the hooks do nothing if nothing has hooked
them (presumably implemented with an inline macro of some kind). The dtrace
utility has a wide range of timing, counting, classification, etc statistics
gathering capabilities. Solaris 10 has hooks on virtually every system
routine entry and exit, as well as many other things.

Now, obviously, thats a lot more sophisticated than we'd want to bite off in a
jdbc driver, but the idea of a generalized hook on entry and exit of each major
method is a good one, the user routine that hooks these could classify the
statement being executed if it wanted to (at its own expense, naturally)