Re: droped out precise time calculations in src/interfaces/libpq/fe-connect.c

Denis A Ustimenko <denis(at)oldham(dot)ru> writes:
> On Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 10:59:40PM -0700, Joe Conway wrote:
>> Well, if we were specifying the timeout in microseconds instead of seconds,
>> it would make sense to have better resolution. But when you can only
>> specify the timeout in seconds, the internal time comparison doesn't need
>> to be any more accurate than seconds (IMHO anyway).

> Actually we have the state machine in connectDBComplete() and the timeout is
> set for machine as the whole. Therefore if 1 second timeout is seted for the
> connectDBComplete() the timeout of particualr iteration of loop can be less
> then 1 second.

However, the code's been restructured so that we don't need to keep
track of the exact time spent in any one iteration. The error is only
on the overall delay. I agree with Joe that it's not worth the effort
needed (in the Win32 case) to make the timeout accurate to < 1 sec.

regards, tom lane