Re: [HACKERS] compression in LO and other fields

Marc G. Fournier wrote:

> On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, Jan Wieck wrote:
>
> > I don't know if there's a compression library available that
> > fit's our need. First and most important it must have a
> > license that permits us to include it in the distribution
> > under our existing license. Second it's implementation must
> > not cause any problems in the backend like memory leakage or
> > the like.
>
> Is this something that could be a configure option? Put the stubs in
> place, and if someone wants to enable that feature, they can install the
> compression library first and run with it?

If using the new type in system catalogs, the option could
only be what kind of compression to use. And we need our own
default compression code shipped anyway.

Of course, it could depend on the config what types are used
in the syscat. But making the catalog headers things that are
shipped as a .in isn't really that good IMHO.

Jan

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