| From: | Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Peter Geoghegan <peter(dot)geoghegan86(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Laurent Wandrebeck <l(dot)wandrebeck(at)gmail(dot)com>, Marcin Krol <mrkafk(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org, Arkadiusz Rdest <a(dot)rdest(at)infomex(dot)pl> |
| Subject: | Re: Linux: PAE or x64 |
| Date: | 2010-12-15 16:34:45 |
| Message-ID: | AANLkTimb3CAF62jY15x8Gjza=0ek=141_-JZR8HdSEOL@mail.gmail.com |
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On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 8:20 AM, Peter Geoghegan
<peter(dot)geoghegan86(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Actually, there is a 64-bit port for windows now. I don't think I
> misrepresented Magnus - the post suggested that the then-lack of a
> 64-bit windows port wasn't a pressing issue, and that various
> technical considerations *partially* justified there not being one at
> the time (the word size of binaries, and more importantly PG's
> architecture). It's an assessment that I agreed with.
Also there was (is?) the issue that the pg / shared memory system used
on windows is apparently quite inefficient at using large amounts of
memory, so there was no pressing need there for 64 bitness either.
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