On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 10:51 PM, Craig Ringer<craig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Personally, I'd probably go 64-bit on any reasonably modern machine that > could be expected to have more than 2 or 3 GB of RAM. Then again, I > can't imagine willingly building a production database server for any > non-trivial (ie > a couple of gigs) database with less than 8GB of RAM > with RAM prices so absurdly low. Skip-lunch-to-afford-more-RAM low. Exactly, I was pricing out a new db server at work, and the difference in cost on a $7000 or so machine was something like $250 or so to go from 16G to 32G of RAM. I also can't imagine running a large pgsql server on windows, even 64 bit windows. -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance