Re: Windows 64 bit

I just read the following article:

http://people.planetpostgresql.org/mha/index.php?/archives/162-PostgreSQL-vs-64-bit-windows.html

Would there be benefits in running PostgreSQL in a 32 bit mode on a 64 bit version of XP?   My thought is that the OS could access more of the memory for the caching of the files.  I come to this understanding because on my production Linux box, I don’t allocate more than a 2 Gig to PostgreSQL.  I leave the rest of the memory available for the caching of disk files.  So even though PostgreSQL would be running in a 32 bit mode it seems like it would still run better on a 64 bit XP box compared to a 32 bit version.  This of course assumes that one does have a sizeable database.

Is this a correct assumption?

Thanks,

I noticed that there is not a 64 bit windows version of postgres binaries.  When will the 64 bit version be available?

Thanks,

Lance Campbell

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