Re: 64-bit integers for GUC

From: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: 64-bit integers for GUC
Date: 2006-07-25 18:28:43
Message-ID: 44C662DB.1020605@agliodbs.com
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Peter,

> I wonder whether platforms with INT64_IS_BROKEN can address more than 2GB of
> memory anyway.
>

To be quite frank, current PostgreSQL can't effectively use more than
256mb of work_mem anyway. We'd like to fix that, but it's not fixed yet
AFAIK.

--Josh

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