On 2019-11-02 11:47:26 +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 01, 2019 at 02:00:10PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie> writes:
> >> 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.
> >
> > This line of argument seems to me to be the moral equivalent of
> > "let's drop 32-bit support altogether". I'm not entirely on board
> > with that. Certainly, a lot of the world is 64-bit these days,
> > but people are still building small systems and they might want
> > a database; preferably one that hasn't been detuned to the extent
> > that it barely manages to run at all on such a platform. Making
> > a whole lot of internal APIs 64-bit would be a pretty big hit for
> > a 32-bit platform --- more instructions, more memory consumed for
> > things like Datum arrays, all in a memory space that's not that big.
>
> I don't agree as well with the line of arguments to just remove 32b
> support.
Nobody is actually proposing that, as far as I can tell? I mean, by all
means argue that the overhead is too high, but just claiming that
slowing down 32bit systems by a measurable fraction is morally
equivalent to removing 32bit support seems pointlessly facetious.
Greetings,
Andres Freund
