libpq compression

From: "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Konstantin Knizhnik <k(dot)knizhnik(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>, "pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: libpq compression
Date: 2018-06-06 20:16:36
Message-ID: CAKFQuwaTe6=0EVe_5TwGDNKJj0myswxfmH=ktfh_Wf2dOP-DBQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Wednesday, June 6, 2018, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)
com> wrote:

> On 6/6/18 13:20, Konstantin Knizhnik wrote:
> > Well, psql really allows to specify complete connection string with -d
> > options (although it is not mentioned in help).
> > But still I think that it is inconvenient to require user to write
> > complete connection string to be able to specify compression option,
> > while everybody prefer to use -h, -U, -p options to specify
> > correspondent components of connection string.
>
> I recommend that you avoid derailing your effort by hinging it on this
> issue. You can always add command-line options after the libpq support
> is in.
>
>
It probably requires a long option. It can be debated whether a short
option is warranted (as well as an environment variable).

David J.

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