Re: Wire protocol compression - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Aleksander Alekseev
Subject Re: Wire protocol compression
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Msg-id 20160421160407.0a476a8a@fujitsu
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In response to Re: Wire protocol compression  ("Shulgin, Oleksandr" <oleksandr.shulgin@zalando.de>)
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Re: Wire protocol compression
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> I guess since the usual answer for compression was "use what SSL
> provides you for free", it's rather unlikely that someone bothered to
> make a proxy just for that purpose, and really, a proxy is just
> another moving part in your setup: not everyone will be thrilled to
> add that.

It just doesn't sound like a feature that should be implemented
separately for every single application that uses TCP. Granted TCP proxy
is not the most convenient way to solve a task. Maybe it could be
implemented in OpenVPN or on Linux TCP/IP stack level.

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Best regards,
Aleksander Alekseev
http://eax.me/



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