At 21:49 7/07/00 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
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>Not bloody likely! Do you want to be in a position where you restart
>your postmaster and suddenly chunks of your database are inaccessible?
>That's what could happen to you if someone moves or deletes libz.so.
My question was limited to it's use in pg_dump; rather than basing
pg_dump's compression bahaviour on configure, base it on it's runtime
environment. But my guess is you still would be inclined, rather strongly,
against it.
>If we do go with using zlib instead of homegrown code
This begs the obvious question: should pg_dump be using Jan's compression
code? In all cases/when zlib is not available?
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