Re: Pgsql 7.3/7.4/8.0 on IA64 HP-UX 11i?

On Tuesday August 17 2004 10:08, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Ed L." <pgsql(at)bluepolka(dot)net> writes:
> > Is gcc supposed to work for 7.3.4 on IA64 HP-UX 11.23 as well?
>
> No, 7.4 is our first release that has any idea that HPUX can run on any
> hardware but HPPA. If you're desperate you could try backporting this
> 7.4 fix:

OK, thx, I may give that a brief try before reconsidering upgrade.

On a related topic, while looking into oddities of an HP-UX iexpress bundle
install of pgsql that had ".../lib/hpux32" and ".../lib/hpux64"
directories, we noticed the following:

$ file `which psql`
/opt/pgsql/postgresql-8.0.0beta1/bin/psql: ELF-32 executable object file
- IA64

This is the same for *many* of the executables in /bin. Does this mean it
is a 32-bit executable? Does it also, therefore, mean that is not taking
advantage of the 64-bit hardware? If so, is there something special I need
to pass to pgsql's configure to get it to build 64-bit executables to fully
exploit this expensive hardware?

TIA.