Re: Linux: PAE or x64

From: Peter Geoghegan <peter(dot)geoghegan86(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Laurent Wandrebeck <l(dot)wandrebeck(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Marcin Krol <mrkafk(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org, Arkadiusz Rdest <a(dot)rdest(at)infomex(dot)pl>
Subject: Re: Linux: PAE or x64
Date: 2010-12-15 11:40:39
Message-ID: AANLkTikCe+MKmn+8tmEe0PZGnjHZ2Par7mz1WZeCyQbF@mail.gmail.com
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On 15 December 2010 10:37, Laurent Wandrebeck <l(dot)wandrebeck(at)gmail(dot)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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