On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 6:33 AM Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentr...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote: > On 2019-12-12 23:06, Peter Geoghegan wrote: > > Apparently Linux has almost no upstream resources for testing 32-bit > > x86, and it shows: > > But isn't 32-bit Windows still a thing? Or does that work differently?
Well, again, I think the proposal here is not get rid of 32-bit support, but to have less code that only gets regularly tested on 32-bit machines. If we made datums 8 bytes everywhere, we would have less such code, and very likely fewer bugs. And as pointed out upthread, although some things might perform worse for the remaining supply of 32-bit users, other things might perform better. I'm not 100% sure that it would work out to a win overall, but I think there's a good chance, especially when you factor in the reduced bug surface. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
