Re: compressed protocol - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Michael Fuhr
Subject Re: compressed protocol
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Msg-id 20060915191800.GA32005@winnie.fuhr.org
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In response to Re: compressed protocol  (zeljko <zeljko@holobit.net>)
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On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 07:58:54PM +0200, zeljko wrote:
> ARGHHHHH.... IT WORKS ! :)))))
> postgresql.conf contained ssl=on , so ssl=off = speed of light via ssh
> tunnel :)

So you were doing SSL over an SSH tunnel.  That explains why
compression didn't seem to be working -- SSH was trying to compress
essentially random data (the SSL-encrypted data), and random data
doesn't have enough redundancy to compress.

--
Michael Fuhr

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