On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 01:05:13PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >> What re-architecting would be needed? > > > I'm asking that it be admitted that it has not been looked at. Not > > seriously. Nor is this unique to PostgreSQL. I expect the performance > > for Linux applications in general to slowly improve on 64-bit > > processors as more and more people begin to use it. I recall a few > > threads on other mailing lists where the primary developers admitted > > to not having ready access to a 64-bit machine. Until they do, the > > chance that these applications are hand-tuned for 64-bit is unlikely. > > What you seem to be asking for is that we engage in a lot of > machine-specific tuning for some particular processor or other. > That has not happened and will not happen. This project believes > in portable code, not "optimized for Xeon-of-the-month" code.
Hi Tom. I'm asking for a statement such as the above, that you provide. :-) The question was whether PostgreSQL was optimized for 64-bit Linux. The answer is "not specifically". The answer is quite acceptable to me. It's not the original answer that was given to the original poster though... :-) Cheers, mark -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________ . . _ ._ . . .__ . . ._. .__ . . . .__ | Neighbourhood Coder |\/| |_| |_| |/ |_ |\/| | |_ | |/ |_ | | | | | | \ | \ |__ . | | .|. |__ |__ | \ |__ | Ottawa, Ontario, Canada One ring to rule them all, one ring to find them, one ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them... http://mark.mielke.cc/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster