| From: | Martin Pitt <martin(at)piware(dot)de> |
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| To: | Stephan Szabo <sszabo(at)megazone(dot)bigpanda(dot)com>, Anand Kumria <wildfire(at)progsoc(dot)uts(dot)edu(dot)au>, Richard van den Berg <richard(dot)vandenberg(at)trust-factory(dot)com>, 342369(at)bugs(dot)debian(dot)org, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-ports(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Bug#342369: PostgreSQL 8.1.0 RHEL / Debian incompatible |
| Date: | 2005-12-13 17:26:29 |
| Message-ID: | 20051213172629.GD30925@piware.de |
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Hi Stephen!
Stephen Frost [2005-12-13 11:06 -0500]:
> Honestly, in the end I think the default should be changed. It could
> fall-back to double with a warning (if it doesn't already) if the
> compiler doesn't support 64bit integers.
> [...]
> I don't think the Debian default should be changed though. If, say, an
> m68k user actually complained about the default not being the right
> option for them then I'd say we should consider having configure options
> be different for those architectures and not that we should move
> everyone to using doubles.
I fully agree. (BTW, I doubt that double operations on m68k would be
any faster than integer ones...)
Thanks,
Martin
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