On Fri, Nov 1, 2019 at 7:47 PM Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> wrote:
> > 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.
Clearly you didn't read what I actually wrote, Michael.
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Peter Geoghegan
