Re: Going, going, GUCs!

From: "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>
To: Bernd Helmle <mailings(at)oopsware(dot)de>
Cc: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, PG Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Going, going, GUCs!
Date: 2009-10-20 22:06:24
Message-ID: alpine.BSF.2.00.0910201905390.3709@hub.org
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On Tue, 20 Oct 2009, Bernd Helmle wrote:

>
>
> --On 20. Oktober 2009 10:49:33 -0700 David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> wrote:
>
>> track_activities (should be on)
>> track_counts (should be on)
>> update_process_title (should be on)
>
> Removing all track* GUCs would only make sense if we are going to make
> autovacuum mandatory, i think. And i thought update_process_title was
> introduced due to performance complaints on some platforms which can't easily
> be resolved?

Yes, update_process_title on FreeBSD defaults to 'off' as the overhead
based on how FreeBSD does the update was enough to make a noticeable
difference in performance ... suspect that is the same for all the *BSDs,
not sure about any other platform though ... maybe Windows?

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