On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 11:07 AM, Aleksander Alekseev < a.aleks...@postgrespro.ru> wrote:
> > Does it make sense to you guys to discuss compression outside of TLS? > > There are potentially huge bandwidth savings which could benefit both > > WAN and non-WAN scenarios, and decoupling this problem from TLS would > > make it both accessible to everyone (assuming PostgreSQL clients > > follow). It would be a protocol change though. > > I personally don't think it's something that should be implemented in > PostgreSQL core. As a third-party TCP-proxy (on both client and server > sides) with gzip/lz4 support perhaps. I'll be not surprised if it turns > out that such projects already exist. > Hm, did you see this recent discussion on -hackers: http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CAMkU=1zt9cjaQjVYAmywcP9iyxMJxFBUaVeB1eiaqBP=gej...@mail.gmail.com#CAMkU=1zt9cjaQjVYAmywcP9iyxMJxFBUaVeB1eiaqBP=gej...@mail.gmail.com ? I guess since the usual answer for compression was "use what SSL provides you for free", it's rather unlikely that someone bothered to make a proxy just for that purpose, and really, a proxy is just another moving part in your setup: not everyone will be thrilled to add that. -- Alex
