On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 13:04 -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
> > Are
> > we willing to be dropped from Debian and possibly Red Hat if this is
> > the case?
> Regardless of whether we do that or not, no one has offered any
> justification of the arbitrary decision not to compress columns >1MB,
> and at least one person (Peter) has suggested that it is exactly
> backwards. I think he's right, and this part should be backed out.
> That will leave us back in the sensible place where people who want
> compression can get it (which is currently false) and people who don't
> want it can get rid of it (which has always been true). If there is a
> demand for alternative compression algorithms, then someone can submit
> a patch for that for 8.5.
>
> ...Robert
+1
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drake
>
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