Anthony,
> I'm curious if anyone can back this up .... or debunk it. It's about
> the polar opposite of everything I've heard from every other database
> vendor for the past several years, and would be quite an eye-opener for
> me.
I generally see a 20% "free" gain in performance on 64-bit (Opteron,
actually). Possibly EDB is still using ICC to compile, and ICC is bad at
64-bit?
I have seen some applications which failed to gain any performance from
64-bit, but have never personally dealt with one which was slower.
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--Josh
Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL @ Sun
San Francisco