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

On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 1:44 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.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:

https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/30619.1428157653@sss.pgh.pa.us

ISTM that we don't even care about Windows performance to a minimal
degree. Hopefully, the ICU stuff Peter Eisentraut is working on will
level the playing field here a little bit, if only as an accidental
side-effect.

-- 
Peter Geoghegan