[csw-maintainers] Building postgresql-8.4.1

James Lee james at opencsw.org
Wed Nov 18 12:21:25 CET 2009


On 18/11/09, 10:17:27, Maciej "(Matchek)" Blizinski <maciej at opencsw.org> 
wrote regarding Re: [csw-maintainers] Building postgresql-8.4.1:

> It makes
> people run 32-bit binaries on 64-bit machines by default, which wastes
> the migration effort: they could've migrated from 32-bit 8.3 to 64-bit
> 8.4, but they only migrated from 32-bit 8.3 to 32-bit 8.4.

I understand it's a waste running 64 bit when it's not needed, only
those that really need it do so, hence the default is 32 and the
choice is there.



James.



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