H apodosh twn 32-bit mhxanwn cpu 8a pesei grhgora otan to mege8os ths bashs jeperasei ta 5 gig. Mporeite na trejete bash twn 30 gig se mia 32-bit cpu alla h apodosh de 8a einai kai polu entypwsiakh. Yparxoyn periorismoi poy epiballontai apo to mege8os ths mnhmhs RAM (megisto 2 gig mono), periorismoi apo ta mege8h toy systhmatos arxeiwn kai epishs apo to leitoyrgiko susthma.
An xreiazetai na xrhsimopoihsete ejairetika megales baseis, sas symboyleuoyme na xrhsimopoihsete mhxanes twn 64-bit opws Digital Alpha cpu, Sun Ultra-sparc 64-bit cpu, Silicon graphics 64-bit cpu, Intel Merced IA-64 cpu, mhxanes HPUX 64bit, IBM 64-bit. Metaglwttiste thn PostgreSQL se mia 64-bit cpu kai 8a mporei na yposthrizei terasties baseis kai megala queries. H apodosh ths PostgreSQL gia erwthseis se megaloys pinakes kai baseis 8a einai polles fores taxuterh apo thn PostgreSQL se mhxanes me cpu 32-bit. To pleonekthma twn mhxanwn 64-bit einai oti h deiktodothsh toy xwroy mnhmhs einai polu megalh kai to leitoyrgiko susthma mporei na yposthrijei systhmata megalwn arxeiwn, parexei kaluterh apodosh me megales baseis, yposthrizei polu perissoterh mnhmh (RAM), exoyn perissoteres dynatothtes klp.