Remove old documentation warnings about the use of bigint.

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml
index 7f6e661adb3af83e9fc67a7ba8d03d727b3e6d92..71cf59e38b9f55a74dd740239ed12177f7f9c8be 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml
@@ -453,18 +453,8 @@
      The type integer is the common choice, as it offers
      the best balance between range, storage size, and performance.
      The smallint type is generally only used if disk
-     space is at a premium.  The bigint type should only
-     be used if the range of the integer type is insufficient,
-     because the latter is definitely faster.
-    
-
-    
-     On very minimal operating systems the bigint type
-     might not function correctly, because it relies on compiler support
-     for eight-byte integers.  On such machines, bigint
-     acts the same as integer, but still takes up eight
-     bytes of storage.  (We are not aware of any modern
-     platform where this is the case.)
+     space is at a premium.  The bigint type is designed to be
+     used when the range of the integer type is insufficient.