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Re: Remove configure --disable-float4-byval and --disable-float8-byval

Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>

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From: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2019-11-01T15:22:27Z
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On Fri, Nov 1, 2019 at 7:41 AM Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> Could we get around this by making Datum 8 bytes everywhere?

I really like that idea.

Even Raspberry Pi devices (which can cost as little as $35) use 64-bit
ARM processors. It's abundantly clear that 32-bit platforms do not
matter enough to justify keeping all the SIZEOF_DATUM crud around.

-- 
Peter Geoghegan

Commits

  1. Move configure --disable-float8-byval to pg_config_manual.h

  2. Remove configure --disable-float4-byval