On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 00:27 +0100, Ivan Voras wrote: > Peter Eisentraut wrote: > > Craig Ringer wrote: > >> So - it's potentially even worth compressing the wire protocol for use > >> on a 100 megabit LAN if a lightweight scheme like LZO can be used.
Yes compressing the wire protocol is a benefit. You can troll the archives for when this has come up in the past. CMD at one time had a hacked up version that proved compression was a benefit (even at 100Mb). Alas it was ugly, :P... If it was done right, it would be a great benefit to folks out there. Joshua D. Drake > > > > LZO is under the GPL though. > > But liblzf is BSD-style. > > http://www.goof.com/pcg/marc/liblzf.html > -- -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
