Re: page compression - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: page compression
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Msg-id 52866E3F-349E-46C9-B9C0-406FEA0C9031@gmail.com
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In response to Re: page compression  (Joachim Wieland <joe@mcknight.de>)
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On Dec 28, 2010, at 10:33 AM, Joachim Wieland <joe@mcknight.de> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Andy Colson <andy@squeakycode.net> wrote:
>> I know its been discussed before, and one big problem is license and patent
>> problems.
>>
>> Would this project be a problem:
>>
>> http://oldhome.schmorp.de/marc/liblzf.html
>
> It looks like even liblzf is not going to be accepted. I have proposed
> to only link against liblzf if available for pg_dump and have somehow
> failed, see:

I thought that was mostly about not wanting multiple changes in one patch. I don't see why liblzf would be
objectionablein general. 

...Robert

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