[postgis-devel] Postgis 2.3.1 regression test failure on NetBSD-7 amd64

[Greg Troxel]

Stephen Woodbridge <woodbri at swoodbridge.com> writes:

> On 12/5/2016 12:21 PM, Sandro Santilli wrote:
>> On Mon, Dec 05, 2016 at 10:06:42AM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote:
>>
>>> -contains interrupted on time
>>> +contains interrupted late: 00:00:00.274858
>>
>> Nothing to worry about, unfortunately we do have some time-sensitive
>> tests so if the tester does not receive enough timeslots it may end
>> up interrupting later than expected.
>>
>> I'd love to fix these but hadn't found a way to obtain CPU time
>> of a postgresql session.
>
> Can't you do something like, get the pid of the backend process and
> then use a system call to get the cpu time maybe using via
> /proc/[PID]/stat on linux
>
> and maybe something like this on Windows:
> https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms683223(v=vs.85).aspx

And then others methods for a big list of other operating systems.  This
seems unportable enough that it's probably best not to go there.