On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 11:33 PM, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> wrote:
> Now, protocol-level on-the-wire compression
> is another option, but there's quite a few drawbacks to that and quite a
> bit of work involved. Having support for COPY-based compression could
> be an answer for many cases where on-the-wire compression is desirable.
Like?
Postgres' packetized protocol lends itself quite well for this kind of
thing. It could even be done on a packet-by-packet basis. The only
drawback I see, is that it pretty much rules out piping through
arbitrary commands (a protocol needs to be very clearly defined).
