Re: [postgis-users] PostGIS / PostgreSQL binaries for RedHat/Itanium II?

2008-01-22 Thread Kyle Wilcox
> What Enterprise Linux do people here use for > PostGIS/PostgreSQL (for personal work where there is > little to no funding)? We have a few Itanium (IA64) boxes that we run with RedHat 5 and use Xen to emulate any environment we need. One of those is a slim gentoo installation which runs our

Re: [postgis-users] PostGIS / PostgreSQL binaries for RedHat/Itanium II?

2008-01-22 Thread Doug_Newcomb
Dana, From what I recall of the Itanium family of processors, it is a "pure" 64 bit processor which does software emulation of a 32 bit x86 environment for 32 bit x86 binaries. I also remember that the performance of this 32 bit x86 emulation method was somewhat lacking. AMD came out with

Re: [postgis-users] PostGIS / PostgreSQL binaries for RedHat/Itanium II?

2008-01-18 Thread Paul Ramsey
On Jan 18, 2008, at 5:56 AM, dnrg wrote: Are there pre-compiled binaries available for PostGIS/PostgreSQL for RedHat/Itanium II. Check with EnterpriseDB, they are the only ones I can imagine both with binaries for oddball architectures. Is Itanium II really such a rare/boutique platform

[postgis-users] PostGIS / PostgreSQL binaries for RedHat/Itanium II?

2008-01-18 Thread dnrg
In my day job, we are architecting an ArcSDE on Oracle Enterprise GIS. ESRI is pushing its ST_GEOMETRY Spatial Data Type for Oracle, and that's fab. I want to use it. Evidently, ROI is greatest when you can bring your spatial data to the greatest number of people in an Enterprise, and that include