Re: Wire protocol compression

From: Aleksander Alekseev <a(dot)alekseev(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>
To: "Shulgin, Oleksandr" <oleksandr(dot)shulgin(at)zalando(dot)de>
Cc: Shay Rojansky <roji(at)roji(dot)org>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Wire protocol compression
Date: 2016-04-21 13:04:07
Message-ID: 20160421160407.0a476a8a@fujitsu
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> I guess since the usual answer for compression was "use what SSL
> provides you for free", it's rather unlikely that someone bothered to
> make a proxy just for that purpose, and really, a proxy is just
> another moving part in your setup: not everyone will be thrilled to
> add that.

It just doesn't sound like a feature that should be implemented
separately for every single application that uses TCP. Granted TCP proxy
is not the most convenient way to solve a task. Maybe it could be
implemented in OpenVPN or on Linux TCP/IP stack level.

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Best regards,
Aleksander Alekseev
http://eax.me/

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