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From: David Steele <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: The end of 32-bit PostgreSQL support?
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2024 09:24:09 +0700
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On 7/28/24 23:44, Christoph Berg wrote:
> 
> Having seen how much time you had to spend on resolving this, I wonder
> it it is finally time to sunset the support for 32-bit architectures
> in PostgreSQL on Debian. I can't even remember when I've seen a 32-bit
> cluster in the wild, and there's been zero complaints when I disabled
> i386 support on apt.postgresql.org for bullseye. 

Well, not quite zero [1]. It took me a while to notice because we test 
32-bit on the oldest Debian/Ubuntu and Debian 11 only because the oldest 
this summer.

> There is a steady
> stream of extension bugs specific to 32-bit, upstreams have little way
> and incentive to fix that, and we waste a lot of time for probably no
> users.
> 
> Comments? Disable it all (but keep libpq5 for applications)? Continue
> to build the server since it works, but disable building all
> extensions?

It's been years since I've had any evidence that anybody is running 
32-bit in a production environment. Probably time to drop support for it.

Regards,
David

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