On Mon, 2021-10-11 at 00:09 +0200, Franck Pachot wrote: > And people will dislike it because it mentions Oracle. I don't think so. While "Oracle has it" is not a good enough reason for a feature, it is certainly no counter-indication. > Or people will dislike it because they think this should be reserved to commercial forks. That is conceivable, but I think most vendors would prefer to have that in standard PostgreSQL rather than having to maintain it on their own. > Or because it may introduce too much dependency on the OS. That is possible. But I think gettimeofday(2) is portable enough. Yours, Laurenz Albe