Hey Jeff,
This example was only used to show that pg96 had better perfomance than pg12 in a very simple case.
In all the tests that I run most of the queries took less time on 9.6`s version. I dont know why, but as you can see after disabling the parameter the simple test that I did showed different results. I intend to test this theory tomorrow. I'm going to disable the parameter and run the same application flows that I have on both machines (9.6 vs 12 with zero value for the param).
I didnt send this mail after doing just one simple test, I have more than 100 queries that work better on 9.6 . If u have any explanation I will be happy to hear.
I'll update tomorrow once I'll have the results..