Re: Linux: PAE or x64 - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Peter Geoghegan
Subject Re: Linux: PAE or x64
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In response to Re: Linux: PAE or x64  (Laurent Wandrebeck <l.wandrebeck@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: Linux: PAE or x64  (Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>)
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On 15 December 2010 10:37, Laurent Wandrebeck <l.wandrebeck@gmail.com> wrote:
> Don't even bother with PAE. Let it rot.
> memory consumption due to 64 bits pointers is negligible.

And yet, that has been used by authoritative people as a partial
justification for pg lacking a 64-bit version on Windows in the past
on more than one occasion. Perhaps it wasn't stressed too much, but
certainly it was treated as a greater than negligible issue:

http://blog.hagander.net/archives/73-PostgreSQL-vs-64-bit-windows.html


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Regards,
Peter Geoghegan

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