diff --git a/src/test/perl/PostgreSQL/Test/SimpleTee.pm b/src/test/perl/PostgreSQL/Test/SimpleTee.pm
index bb9d79a755..d92c31a891 100644
--- a/src/test/perl/PostgreSQL/Test/SimpleTee.pm
+++ b/src/test/perl/PostgreSQL/Test/SimpleTee.pm
@@ -10,10 +10,31 @@
 # method is currently implemented; that's all we need. We don't want to
 # depend on IO::Tee just for this.
 
+# The package is enhanced to add timestamp and elapsed time decorations to
+# the log file traces sent through this interface from Test::More.
+
 package PostgreSQL::Test::SimpleTee;
 use strict;
 use warnings;
 
+use Time::HiRes qw(time);
+
+my $last_time;
+
+BEGIN { $last_time = time; }
+
+sub _time_str
+{
+	my $tm = time;
+	my $diff = $tm - $last_time;
+	$last_time = $tm;
+    my ($sec, $min, $hour, $mday, $mon, $year, $wday, $yday, $isdst) =
+      localtime($tm);
+	my $usec = int(1000 * ($tm - int($tm)));
+    return sprintf("[%.2d:%.2d:%.2d.%.3d](%.3fs) ",
+				   $hour, $min, $sec, $usec, $diff);
+}
+
 sub TIEHANDLE
 {
 	my $self = shift;
@@ -24,10 +45,16 @@ sub PRINT
 {
 	my $self = shift;
 	my $ok   = 1;
+	# The first file argument passed to tiehandle in PostgreSQL::Test::Utils is
+	# the original stdout, which is what PROVE sees. Additional decorations
+	# confuse it, so only put out the time string on files after the first.
+	my $skip = 1;
+	my $ts = _time_str;
 	for my $fh (@$self)
 	{
-		print $fh @_ or $ok = 0;
+		print $fh ($skip ? "" : $ts), @_ or $ok = 0;
 		$fh->flush   or $ok = 0;
+		$skip = 0;
 	}
 	return $ok;
 }