| From: | Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Phil Sorber <phil(at)omniti(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Florian Pflug <fgp(at)phlo(dot)org>, Euler Taveira <euler(at)timbira(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Pgsql Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: libpq compression |
| Date: | 2012-06-14 16:00:31 |
| Message-ID: | CAHyXU0wQeXf7WPw+eydh38anoFnX3O7hkFd8wBVii2GSKs1ZVw@mail.gmail.com |
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On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Phil Sorber <phil(at)omniti(dot)com> wrote:
> It doesn't sound like there is a lot of support for this idea, but I
> think it would be nice to get something like lz4
> (http://code.google.com/p/lz4/) or snappy
> (http://code.google.com/p/snappy/) support. Both are BSD-ish licensed.
> It could be useful for streaming replication as well. A hook (as Euler
> mentioned) might be a nice compromise.
There is a lot of support for the idea: it's one of the more requested
features. I think a well thought out framework that bypassed the
dependency issues via plugging might get some serious traction.
Emphasis 'on well thought out' :-).
merlin
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