--- Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> CG <cgg007@yahoo.com> writes:
> > Being the novice that I am, I thought that 32bit and 64bit binary code
> > could be used interchangeably. Is there some incompatibility of which
> > I am unaware?
>
> AFAIK you can't mix the two in the same executable image. If you are
> stuck using a 32-bit-only library, you'll have to build all of the
> Postgres server as 32-bit. Note that this is probably not going to
> cost all that much performance-wise, so I wouldn't recommend expending
> any great amount of sweat to avoid it.
Hm. It looks like building 32-bit Postgres is going to be even uglier what with
all the libraries that will have to be compiled into lib32. It thought it would
be easy enough to CC=gcc32 ./configure --with-all-my-options ... Should I have
started out with a 32-bit Linux distro?
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