Hi, On 2022-02-15 15:09:37 -0500, Robert Haas wrote: > On Tue, Feb 15, 2022 at 2:54 PM Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> wrote: > > There's a difference between downloading a source tarball of 1.5x the size, > > and 3x the decompression cost (made up numbers), because the cost of either > > is > > not a relevant factor. I think basebackups are a different story. > > To be clear, I'm not saying that people shouldn't choose to adopt the > new stuff. I'm just saying that many of them won't, for various > reasons, including inertia. There may come a point when we want to > make a push to remove obsolete stuff, but I think what is far more > important right now is making the new stuff available.
I think well before removing stuff we should default to decent compression algorithms. E.g. -Z/--compress should probably not continue to use gzip if better things are available. Greetings, Andres Freund
