Re: Question: merit / feasibility of compressing frontend

Has anyone run any tests to see if it is faster/slower.

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Tom Lane wrote:
> "Joshua D. Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> > There is a real commercial need, when dealing with VPN's, remote
> > users, and web based distributed applications for something like this.
>
> This unsubstantiated opinion doesn't really do much to change my
> opinion. We have seen maybe two or three prior requests for compression
> (which does not qualify as a groundswell); furthermore they were all "it
> would be nice if..." handwaving, with no backup data to convince anyone
> that any real performance gain would emerge in common scenarios. So I'm
> less than eager to buy into the portability and interoperability
> pitfalls that are likely to emerge from requiring clients and servers to
> have zlib.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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