Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> writes:
> Right now I'm confused though. I was under the impression the changes
> were going to be ripped out because it was decided to be unworkable. I
> think improvements can be made but I'm unsure if there's any
> interest...
I've reverted the current patch because it clearly doesn't work well
enough. There's nothing stopping you from having a better idea though.
It's clear that on some platforms the cost of gettimeofday is high
enough that some workaround would be good.
regards, tom lane