Re: compressed protocol - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Ron Johnson
Subject Re: compressed protocol
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Msg-id 44FB75D5.4000109@cox.net
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In response to Re: compressed protocol  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> zeljko <zeljko@holobit.net> writes:
>> Is there any plans (or somebody already working on) to see compressed
>> protocol in 8.2 ?
>
> Why bother?  Run your session through an ssh tunnel and ask it to
> compress.

Wouldn't that add extra libssl overhead?

How difficult would it be to add a zlib(?) hook?  (No, really.  I'm
*not* assuming that it would be trivial.)

- --
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA

Is "common sense" really valid?
For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that
whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins
are mud people.
However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong.
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