| From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: pg_basebackup compression TODO item |
| Date: | 2016-03-03 17:56:41 |
| Message-ID: | 56D87AD9.5080606@commandprompt.com |
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On 03/03/2016 09:34 AM, Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2016-03-03 18:31:03 +0100, Magnus Hagander wrote:
>> I think we want it at protocol level rather than pg_basebackup level.
>
> I think we may want both eventually, but I do agree that protocol level
> has a lot higher "priority" than that. Something like protocol level
> compression has a bit of different tradeofs than compressing base
> backups, and it's nice not to compress, uncompress, compress again.
Agreed. This is something that we have neglected and argued against for
no good reason for over a decade. It is time to get it done.
Sincerely,
JD
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