Received: from maia.hub.org (unknown [200.46.208.211]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 760D7633B05 for ; Tue, 30 Mar 2010 11:59:03 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.211]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 14323-01 for ; Tue, 30 Mar 2010 14:58:43 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: domain auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from mail-ew0-f220.google.com (mail-ew0-f220.google.com [209.85.219.220]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A44D8633266 for ; Tue, 30 Mar 2010 11:58:52 -0300 (ADT) Received: by ewy20 with SMTP id 20so1437008ewy.21 for ; Tue, 30 Mar 2010 07:58:50 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:received:message-id:subject:from:cc:content-type; bh=AaPQmH2Noy/2xRuCqAGZ97LrvVigMnPClRJwtn1ke/I=; b=vhiPp4b8Y2DWu1x+UFOFx2ogMEbvJpRjAM/+G3E4X+ZpbM/wLHPL/9LaxGmEoDZVc8 I7GlxZFcLe7T2OYgFkCylxk5kX1HR26qGTlshwJClb96vUXOeylkywI6tnJ4nhSa6c4c Chikq8ppl8gk9HIguEZvvpbYkHGzzgbRgRgek= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:cc :content-type; b=UXARtD38RC/eMK/cEJJdTu+s4XMVf8US77FqX6XG8hqHu5yjWFjpdjyTiXoFHcvNJ4 qXOh+Ox/qKw+nA/26LZU4VG6uwtXafNOFlofl7ejeor7QVbSl1xl1aTyvRPDaFPFcUV/ XlHryRnJSxHYoGYz8FIjwm3UrwxC3NPjrEVZg= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.23.73 with HTTP; Tue, 30 Mar 2010 07:58:50 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <7965A9DCF12CC14984420BCC37B1608F25AB1AEE51@Elzar.grant.co.uk> References: <7965A9DCF12CC14984420BCC37B1608F25AB1AED49@Elzar.grant.co.uk> <1269959369.15416.5.camel@deimos> <20100330143831.GE17567@easy5.in-chemnitz.de> <7965A9DCF12CC14984420BCC37B1608F25AB1AEE51@Elzar.grant.co.uk> Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 16:58:50 +0200 Received: by 10.216.85.130 with SMTP id u2mr376387wee.49.1269961130537; Tue, 30 Mar 2010 07:58:50 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <99f1636c1003300758n4fa20613mfa9239ebe5508cf5@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: Migrate postgres to newer hardware From: jose javier parra sanchez Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.68 tagged_above=-10 required=5 tests=AWL=-0.427, BAYES_40=-0.185, MISSING_HEADERS=1.292 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201003/250 X-Sequence-Number: 34049 2010/3/30 Renato Oliveira : > If I use postgres 32 bit will it benefit from the extra memory on the system? > > I don't think it will. > > Thank you very much > > Renato > Depending on the system, with a 32Bit OS you can only address 2 or 3 GB of continuous memory. 64Bit OS's have not this limitation.