On Fri, Nov 1, 2019 at 7:47 PM Michael Paquier <mich...@paquier.xyz> wrote: > > This line of argument seems to me to be the moral equivalent of > > "let's drop 32-bit support altogether". I'm not entirely on board > > with that. Certainly, a lot of the world is 64-bit these days, > > but people are still building small systems and they might want > > a database; preferably one that hasn't been detuned to the extent > > that it barely manages to run at all on such a platform. Making > > a whole lot of internal APIs 64-bit would be a pretty big hit for > > a 32-bit platform --- more instructions, more memory consumed for > > things like Datum arrays, all in a memory space that's not that big. > > I don't agree as well with the line of arguments to just remove 32b > support.
Clearly you didn't read what I actually wrote, Michael. -- Peter Geoghegan
