Use GetSystemTimeAsFileTime directly in win32

simonat2ndQuadrant · simonat2ndQuadrant · commit 519b0757a372 · 2014-12-08T23:32:03.000+09:00
PostgreSQL was calling GetSystemTime followed by SystemTimeToFileTime in the
win32 port gettimeofday function. This is not necessary and limits the reported
precision to the 1ms granularity that the SYSTEMTIME struct can represent. By
using GetSystemTimeAsFileTime we avoid unnecessary conversions and capture
timestamps at 100ns granularity, which is then rounded to 1µs granularity for
storage in a PostgreSQL timestamp.

On most Windows systems this change will actually have no significant effect on
timestamp resolution as the system timer tick is typically between 1ms and 15ms
depending on what timer resolution currently running applications have
requested. You can check this with clockres.exe from sysinternals. Despite the
platform limiation this change still permits capture of finer timestamps where
the system is capable of producing them and it gets rid of an unnecessary
syscall.

The higher resolution GetSystemTimePreciseAsFileTime call available on Windows
8 and Windows Server 2012 has the same interface as GetSystemTimeAsFileTime, so
switching to GetSystemTimeAsFileTime makes it easier to use the Precise variant
later.

Craig Ringer, reviewed by David Rowley
diff --git a/src/port/gettimeofday.c b/src/port/gettimeofday.c
@@ -31,9 +31,16 @@
 #include <sys/time.h>
 
 
-/* FILETIME of Jan 1 1970 00:00:00. */
+/* FILETIME of Jan 1 1970 00:00:00, the PostgreSQL epoch */
 static const unsigned __int64 epoch = UINT64CONST(116444736000000000);
 
+/*
+ * FILETIME represents the number of 100-nanosecond intervals since
+ * January 1, 1601 (UTC).
+ */
+#define FILETIME_UNITS_PER_SEC	10000000L
+#define FILETIME_UNITS_PER_USEC	10
+
 /*
  * timezone information is stored outside the kernel so tzp isn't used anymore.
  *
@@ -44,16 +51,15 @@ int
 gettimeofday(struct timeval * tp, struct timezone * tzp)
 {
 	FILETIME	file_time;
-	SYSTEMTIME	system_time;
 	ULARGE_INTEGER ularge;
 
-	GetSystemTime(&system_time);
-	SystemTimeToFileTime(&system_time, &file_time);
+	GetSystemTimeAsFileTime(&file_time);
 	ularge.LowPart = file_time.dwLowDateTime;
 	ularge.HighPart = file_time.dwHighDateTime;
 
-	tp->tv_sec = (long) ((ularge.QuadPart - epoch) / 10000000L);
-	tp->tv_usec = (long) (system_time.wMilliseconds * 1000);
+	tp->tv_sec = (long) ((ularge.QuadPart - epoch) / FILETIME_UNITS_PER_SEC);
+	tp->tv_usec = (long) (((ularge.QuadPart - epoch) % FILETIME_UNITS_PER_SEC)
+		/ FILETIME_UNITS_PER_USEC);
 
 	return 0;
 }
