On Thu, Jul 17, 2025 at 8:10 PM Tom Lane <[email protected]> wrote: > In a discussion on Discord (in the PG #core-hacking channel, > which unfortunately is inaccessible to non-members), Andres > and Robert complained about the development/maintenance costs > of continuing to support 32-bit platforms. Here is a modest > proposal to reduce those costs without going so far as to > entirely desupport such platforms: let's require them to use > 8-byte Datums even though that's probably not a native data > type for them. That lets us get rid of logic to support the > !USE_FLOAT8_BYVAL case, and allows a few other simplifications. > > The attached patch switches to 8-byte Datums everywhere, but > doesn't make any effort to remove the now-dead code. I made > it just as a proof-of-concept that this can work. It compiled > cleanly and passed check-world for me on a 32-bit FreeBSD > image.
Sorry for not responding to this thread sooner, but thanks, Tom. I think this is a great change and I appreciate you doing the legwork. -- Robert Haas EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
