Re: compiling, performance of PostGreSQL 8.3 on 64-bit processors

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Douglas McNaught" <doug(at)mcnaught(dot)org>
Cc: "Benjamin Weaver" <benjamin(dot)weaver(at)classics(dot)ox(dot)ac(dot)uk>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org, "Greg Smith" <gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com>
Subject: Re: compiling, performance of PostGreSQL 8.3 on 64-bit processors
Date: 2008-06-27 16:21:15
Message-ID: 4080.1214583675@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Douglas McNaught" <doug(at)mcnaught(dot)org> writes:
> On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 11:52 AM, Benjamin Weaver
> <benjamin(dot)weaver(at)classics(dot)ox(dot)ac(dot)uk> wrote:
>> Not knowing about such things, I was scared by the following quote.

> Distro support for 64-bit x86 in 2004 was light-years behind where it
> is now. A lot of stuff was hard to get working back then. Now almost
> everything basically Just Works.

Even in 2004, the guy would have had to be working on a rather old or
broken distro to justify such a complaint. Getting 64-bit to work was
a live issue maybe around 2001 or so...

regards, tom lane

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