Re: compiling, performance of PostGreSQL 8.3 on 64-bit processors

"Douglas McNaught" <doug@mcnaught.org> writes:
> On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 11:52 AM, Benjamin Weaver
> <benjamin.weaver@classics.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
>> Not knowing about such things, I was scared by the following quote.

> Distro support for 64-bit x86 in 2004 was light-years behind where it
> is now.  A lot of stuff was hard to get working back then.  Now almost
> everything basically Just Works.

Even in 2004, the guy would have had to be working on a rather old or
broken distro to justify such a complaint.  Getting 64-bit to work was
a live issue maybe around 2001 or so...

            regards, tom lane