Re: Copression - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Jay Guerette
Subject Re: Copression
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Msg-id 4b9601ce05032111273be50492@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Copression  (Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>)
List pgsql-general
FWIW: If you use an stunnel or ssh connection of some sort, merely for
compression and not security, the ARCFOUR encryption algorithm appears
to have the lowest overhead & fastest throughput. Benchmarked it once
for exactly this purpose.

> > > It's a possible to compress traffic between server and client while server returns query result?
> > > It's a very actually for dial-up users.
> > > What is solution?
> >
> > No, unless SSL compresses automatically.
>
> Without checking the source, I'll bet it does.
> Any good encryption system should compress first.

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