Mark Kirkwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So it seems to me that there is nothing to be gained using a 64-bit > binary with the current or previous Pg releases. However, with the new > cache replacement system being used in 7.5devel, the situation *may* be > different (wonder if anyone has tried this out yet?).
Quite honestly, I suspect we may be wasting our time hacking the Postgres buffer replacement algorithm at all. There are a bunch of reasons why the PG shared buffer arena should never be more than a small fraction of physical RAM, and under those conditions the cache replacement algorithm that will matter is the kernel's, not ours. I stand ready to be proven wrong, of course ... regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])