Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> writes: > Can you think of any places at all where 64-bit would make a difference > to processing? 64-bit gives you more memory, and on some x86 chips, more > registers, but that's it.
It would be interesting to look into making int8 and float8 be pass-by-value datatypes to save palloc overhead on machines where Datum is going to be 8 bytes wide anyway. Of course this would only help queries that use those datatypes extensively, and it might be an insignificant savings anyhow :-( For the most part though I think that the main advantage of 64-bit for a database is the ability to address more memory. We've been working slowly towards allowing PG to make better use of large numbers of shared buffers, for instance. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly