daveg wrote: > On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 10:23:17PM -0500, Andrew Chernow wrote: > > Dann Corbit wrote: > > > > > >The LZMA SDK is granted to the public domain: > > >http://www.7-zip.org/sdk.html > > > > > > > I played with this but found the SDK extremely confusing and flat out > > horrible. One personal dislike was the unnecessary use of C++; although it > > was the horrible API that turned me off. I'm not even sure if I ever got > > a > > test program working. > > > > LZO (http://www.oberhumer.com/opensource/lzo/) is a great algorithm, easy > > API with many variants; my fav is LZO1X-1(15). Its known for its > > compresison and decompresison speeds ... its blazing fast. zlib typically > > gets 5-8% more compression. > > LZO rocks. I wonder if the lzo developer would consider a license exception > so that postgresql could use it? What would we need?
The chance of us using anything but one zlib is near zero so please do not persue this; this discussion comes up much too often. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
