Re: x86-64 and PostgreSQL - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: x86-64 and PostgreSQL
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Msg-id 22328.1042872275@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to x86-64 and PostgreSQL  (Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>)
List pgsql-performance
Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> writes:
> Will there be any advantages to running Pg on a 64-bit CPU rather
> than 32-bit?

Not so's you'd notice.  PG is designed to be cross-platform, and at
the moment that means 32-bit-centric.  There's been occasional talk
of improving the performance of float8 and int8 types on 64-bit
machines, but so far it's only idle talk; and in any case I think
that performance improvements for those two datatypes wouldn't have
much effect for average applications.

            regards, tom lane

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