Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> writes:
> I implemented a basic implementation using pg_lzcompress. It appears
> that pg_lzcompress is very, very slow. I was afraid that I'd made an
> infinite loop, but it was just really slow. Mind you, the overhead of
> each call might have been the problem, it was being called on every
> 32KB block.
Something wrong there, because the entire point of pg_lzcompress was to
be pretty fast. I agree it needs looking into.
regards, tom lane