Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> Can we change the default setting of track_io_timing to on?
That adds a very significant amount of overhead on some platforms
(gettimeofday is not cheap if it requires a kernel call). And I
doubt the claim that the average Postgres user needs this, and
doubt even more that they need it on all the time.
So I'm -1 on the idea.
regards, tom lane