On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:13:27 -0400
Carol Walter <walterc@indiana.edu> wrote:
> Greetings, one and all,
>
> I have some very large memory bound queries being run in postgres.
> The documentation seems to say that I would be able to get more use
> out of the available memory if I were running the 64 bit postgres
> instead of the current 32 bit. We have the binaries for both. What
> would be the ramifications to changing from the 32 bit to the 64 bit
> process?
You have to dump and reload or use something like Slony to transfer
your data to the new cluster.
Joshua D. Drake
>
> Thanks,
> Carol
>
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