Greg Copeland wrote: Checking application/pgp-signature: FAILURE -- Start of PGP signed section. > Well, it occurred to me that if a large result set were to be identified > before transport between a client and server, a significant amount of > bandwidth may be saved by using a moderate level of compression. > Especially with something like result sets, which I tend to believe may > lend it self well toward compression. > > Unlike FTP which may be transferring (and often is) previously > compressed data, raw result sets being transfered between the server and > a remote client, IMOHO, would tend to compress rather well as I doubt > much of it would be true random data. >
I should have said compressing the HTTP protocol, not FTP. > This may be of value for users with low bandwidth connectivity to their > servers or where bandwidth may already be at a premium. But don't slow links do the compression themselves, like PPP over a modem? -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 853-3000 + If your life is a hard drive, | 830 Blythe Avenue + Christ can be your backup. | Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania 19026 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])
