On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 11:06:16AM -0700, Daniel Farina wrote: > For 9.3 at a minimum. > > The topic of LZO became mired in doubts about: > > * Potential Patents > * The author's intention for the implementation to be GPL > > Since then, Google released "Snappy," also an LZ77-class > implementation, and it has been ported to C (recently, and with some > quirks, like no LICENSE file...yet, although it is linked from the > original Snappy project). The original Snappy (C++) has a BSD license > and a patent grant (which shields you from Google, at least). Do we > want to investigate a very-fast compression algorithm inclusion again > in the 9.3 cycle? >
+1 for Snappy and a very fast compression algorithm. Regards, Ken -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
