Re: compiling postgres for 64 bit windows using mingw64

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "McWilliams, Steven" <Steven_McWilliams(at)bmc(dot)com>
Cc: "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: compiling postgres for 64 bit windows using mingw64
Date: 2009-07-02 16:49:36
Message-ID: 1008.1246553376@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"McWilliams, Steven" <Steven_McWilliams(at)bmc(dot)com> writes:
> I am wondering if anyone has successfully compiled postgres for 64 bit
> windows using mingw64?

We don't currently support 64-bit builds on Windows. There are a pile
of issues there, most coming from Microsoft's nonstandard decision to
make sizeof(long) != sizeof(pointer). In practice you probably wouldn't
get any noticeable performance improvement over a 32-bit build anyway,
seeing that large shared_buffers settings don't seem to be useful on
Windows.

regards, tom lane

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