Re: [RFC] Change the default of update_process_title to off

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, "Tsunakawa, Takayuki" <tsunakawa(dot)takay(at)jp(dot)fujitsu(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Change the default of update_process_title to off
Date: 2016-08-23 21:02:05
Message-ID: 20160823210205.GI3895@momjian.us
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On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 01:58:02PM -0700, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 1:44 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
> >> [Windows]
> >> #clients on off
> >> 12 29793 38169
> >> 24 31587 87237
> >> 48 32588 83335
> >> 96 34261 67668
> >
> > This ranges from a 28% to a 97% speed improvement on Windows! Those are
> > not typos! This is a game-changer for use of Postgres on Windows for
> > certain workloads!
>
> While I don't care all that much about performance on windows, it is a
> little sad that it took this long to fix something so simple. Consider
> this exchange, as a further example of our lack of concern here:

Agreed, but we really can only react to the research we are given. If
no Windows users are digging in to find problems, those problems will
not be found.

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