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Re: Postgresql on Debian



On Wednesday, 17.08.2005 at 09:49 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:

> > I need a little help. When I install the Postgresql on Debian running in 
> > i686 architecture, the command:
> > 
> > =# select version();
> > 
> > shows:
> > 
> > PostgreSQL 8.0.3 on i386-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC cc (GCC) 3.3.5 
> > (Debian 1:3.3.5-13) (1 row)
> > 
> > I would like to know if the package was installed in 386 or 686 mode. I 
> > think the i386-pc-linux-gnu is the Debian architecture. However I would 
> > like to see the processor architecture.
> 
> Debian "x86" packages are all compiled for i386 (with the exception,
> I think of a few C++ libraries, which are compiled for i486).

That's about right: libc6 is available as libc6-i686, and there are
kernel packages available for i686 too.  On my system I also see
loop-aes and one or two others optimized for i686 too, but this as Ron
says is the exception rather than the norm.

If you want to optimized for your own architecture, then 'apt-get source
postgresql' and change the build options to make your own :-)  This
should be fairly simple.

Dave.

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