On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 10:21 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > "Douglas McNaught" <doug@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 11:52 AM, Benjamin Weaver >> <benjamin.weaver@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> Not knowing about such things, I was scared by the following quote. > >> Distro support for 64-bit x86 in 2004 was light-years behind where it >> is now. A lot of stuff was hard to get working back then. Now almost >> everything basically Just Works. > > Even in 2004, the guy would have had to be working on a rather old or > broken distro to justify such a complaint. Getting 64-bit to work was > a live issue maybe around 2001 or so... Yeah, I thought his complaint about pg 64 bit compiling was a bit wacky. I was building 8.0 and 8.1 64 bit on our servers back then and / or installing x86_64 rpms with no problems at all in 2004/5 or so. MySQL compiling on the other hand, has always been a frakking nightmare.
