Tom Lane wrote:
> There are patents related to databases. Shall we therefore shut down
> Postgres development and run screaming for the hills? If we let
> ourselves be intimidated by irrelevant patents, the Microsofts and
> Unisyses will win without a fight.
It's definitely a LZ77 coder, and this technique is used in
many other compressors too (lha, arj, zlib, gzip, ...). So I
don't think we have to fear anything.
Jan
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