> On 8 Feb 2019, at 10:15, Konstantin Knizhnik <k.knizh...@postgrespro.ru> > wrote:
> Frankly speaking, I do not think that such flexibility in choosing > compression algorithms is really needed. > I do not expect that there will be many situations where old client has to > communicate with new server or visa versa. > In most cases both client and server belongs to the same postgres > distributive and so implements the same compression algorithm. > As far as we are compressing only temporary data (traffic), the problem of > providing backward compatibility seems to be not so important. I don’t think this assumption is entirely valid, and would risk unnecessary breakage. cheers ./daniel
