Re: Six PostgreSQL questions from a pokerplayer

Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>

From: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
To: Craig Ringer <craig@postnewspapers.com.au>
Cc: Patvs <patvs@chello.nl>, pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Date: 2009-07-06T10:23:10Z
Lists: pgsql-performance
* Craig Ringer (craig@postnewspapers.com.au) wrote:
> What that does mean, though, is that if you don't have significantly
> more RAM than a 32-bit machine can address (say, 6 to 8 GB), you should
> stick with 32-bit binaries.

I'm not sure this is always true since on the amd64/em64t platforms
you'll get more registers and whatnot in 64-bit mode which can offset
the pointer size increases.

	Thanks,

		Stephen