Operation timing
For debuggin/benchmarking purposes one can measure the duration of some operations
Session connection time
ALIENPY_TIMECONNECT=1 alien.py pwd
it will print the time needed to establish session
Command/Query time
alien.py time pwd
it will print total time spent in sending command, receive answer, decode answer.
Server-side DB query timing
alien.py "timing on; pwd"
it will print the time taken by each DB query