Poll: Are You Running PostgreSQL on 32-Bit Hardware?

3 points by JoelJacobson ↗ HN
Knowing more about this can hopefully help the PostgreSQL community reason about how much additional code complication is justifiable for fast 32-bit support.

If fast 32-bit support is important to you, please also write a comment with details on your use-case and hardware.

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What 32-bit systems are being used today? Is this on ARM or x86? or is it just running 32-bit software on x86-64/AMD64?

I think slightly more elaborate answers would benefit the person asking for this info. Maybe include the PostgreSQL version, system memory and a short description of your application.

> What 32-bit systems are being used today?

I found these in the PostgreSQL Build Farm:

- AIX 7100-05-06-2028 gcc 8.3.0 (32 bit) ppc64 (POWER7) - Debian 7.0 gcc 4.7.2 i686 - Debian Sid gcc recent i386

Source: https://buildfarm.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/show_status.pl

But there might be more that we don't know about.

> Is this on ARM or x86?

Any of the supported platforms: x86, PowerPC, (S/390), SPARC, ARM, MIPS, RISC-V, and PA-RISC

Source: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/supported-platforms....

> is it just running 32-bit software on x86-64/AMD64

No, it's when running PostgreSQL on actual 32-bit hardware.