Re: Remove configure --disable-float4-byval and --disable-float8-byval

From: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Remove configure --disable-float4-byval and --disable-float8-byval
Date: 2019-11-01 15:22:27
Message-ID: CAH2-Wzn1tb8cVoo_E4Tn6CC79ashORQVEteZXMjKnzaz_VmgJQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Fri, Nov 1, 2019 at 7:41 AM Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Could we get around this by making Datum 8 bytes everywhere?

I really like that idea.

Even Raspberry Pi devices (which can cost as little as $35) use 64-bit
ARM processors. It's abundantly clear that 32-bit platforms do not
matter enough to justify keeping all the SIZEOF_DATUM crud around.

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Peter Geoghegan

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