Tom Lane wrote:
>
>> I think the high number of setproctitle() calls are more problematic
>> to us at the moment, Kris can comment on that.
>
> As of PG 8.2 it is possible to turn those off. I don't think there's a
> lot of enthusiasm for turning them off by default ... at least not yet.
> But it might make sense to point out in the PG documentation that
> update_process_title is particularly costly on platforms X, Y, and Z.
> Do you know if this issue affects all the BSDen equally?
>
Might be good to turn off by default for the 8.2+ Postgresql versions in
the FreeBSD ports tree (looks like postgresql.conf.sample is being
patched anyway, so pretty easy to amend).
Cheers
Mark