Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 02:05:57PM -0500, Geoffrey wrote: > > In searching the archives, I can't find any specific info indentifying > > which Xeon processors don't have this problem. > > AFAIK the cut-off point is at the Woodcrests. They are overall much better > suited to PostgreSQL than the older Xeons were. > > It's slightly unfortunate that AMD and Intel cling to the Opteron and Xeon > names even though they're making significant architecture changes, but that's > life, I guess. AFAIR Intel has been calling their server processors Xeon since Pentium Pro's, at least. -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.
