[csw-maintainers] Building postgresql-8.4.1

[Philip Brown]

On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 5:10 AM, Dagobert Michelsen <dam at opencsw.org> wrote:
>....
> You assume that using 64 bit is always better than using 32 bit. This
> is not the case. If you need more than 2 GB of RAM or have large
> databases you are right. But if the database is not that big you are
> better off using 32 bit.[....]
> I don't see that any of the above applies in the case of postgres.
>


yup.

it is exactly for these reasons, that our (old, yes) mysql package,
provides BOTH 32bit and 64bit database binaries, and lets the user
decide which one they wish to run.
NO use of isaexec.