Re: Memory on 32bit machine - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Chris
Subject Re: Memory on 32bit machine
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In response to Re: Memory on 32bit machine  (Geoffrey <lists@serioustechnology.com>)
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Geoffrey wrote:
> mljv@planwerk6.de wrote:
>> Am Montag, 7. Januar 2008 12:56 schrieb Florian Weimer:
>>>> Or would you rather vote for 64bit because there are no problems
>>>> anymore and postgresql runs fine on 64bit debian.
>>> We haven't run into any trouble with iptables on Debian etch, running
>>> on amd64 hardware.  But we use only fairly standard iptables
>>> functionality.
>>
>> ok, thanks for this information. It was sarge when i used iptables
>> with 64bit kernel and it even failed to start up.so i'll might give
>> 64bit another try.
>>
>> Are there any other recommendations whether to use 64bit or 32bit OS
>> with postgresql? I just want to use 64bit if it as stable as 32bit.
>
> I'm curious as to why you would run iptables on a database server.  My
> expectation would be that your database machine would be behind a
> dedicated firewall.

Why not? Security in layers and all that. :)

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