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From: Bradford Boyle <bradford.d.boyle@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2024 20:42:03 -0700
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Subject: Re: The end of 32-bit PostgreSQL support?
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As a quick reference point, I spent a few minutes looking at how the
PostgreSQL Yum Repository handles architectures and distributions. It
looks like when a repo is EOLed, they stop providing updates to any
package except PostgreSQL RPMs [1]. Additionally, it looks like RHEL 6
was the last distribution to support x86.

Looking at the current release notes for Debian trixie [2], i686 will
still be an officially supported architecture. I think the proposal to
continue building the server, but disable building all extensions for
32-bit architectures is very reasonable.

-- Bradford

[1]: https://yum.postgresql.org/news/rhel7-end-of-life/
[2]: https://www.debian.org/releases/trixie/release-notes/whats-new.en.html#supported-architectures