Re: x86-64 and PostgreSQL

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Ron Johnson <ron(dot)l(dot)johnson(at)cox(dot)net>
Cc: PgSQL Performance ML <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: x86-64 and PostgreSQL
Date: 2003-01-18 06:44:35
Message-ID: 22328.1042872275@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Ron Johnson <ron(dot)l(dot)johnson(at)cox(dot)net> writes:
> Will there be any advantages to running Pg on a 64-bit CPU rather
> than 32-bit?

Not so's you'd notice. PG is designed to be cross-platform, and at
the moment that means 32-bit-centric. There's been occasional talk
of improving the performance of float8 and int8 types on 64-bit
machines, but so far it's only idle talk; and in any case I think
that performance improvements for those two datatypes wouldn't have
much effect for average applications.

regards, tom lane

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