Re: Quad Xeon vs. Dual Itanium

Hmm, do you mean 64 bit postgresql on Solaris-Sparc isn't significantly
better performance-wise than 32 bit postgresql on Solaris-Sparc?

Interesting.

How about very large databases?

At 07:17 AM 2/13/2004 -0500, Andrew Sullivan wrote:

>On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 12:46:58PM -0500, Christopher Browne wrote:
> > Lots of people have been running it on 64 bit systems for _years_ now.
> > The Digital Alpha architecture, for instance, was introduced in the
> > 1992, and Sun UltraSPARC in 1995. PostgreSQL has been running well on
> > these sorts of systems for a lot of years now.
>
>But actually, there are problems with using postgres as a 64 bit
>application on Solaris. It works, and it's reliable, but I've never
>seen any evidence that it helps anything (and I've looked plenty).
>
>A
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