This has been brought up a couple of times now. Feel free to search the
old archives for more information. IIRC, it would of made the
implementation more problematic, or so I think it was said.
When I originally brought the topic (compression) up, it was not well
received. As such, it may of be
Without getting into too many details, why not send toast data to
non-local clients? Seems that would be the big win. The data is
already compressed, so the server wouldn't pay cpu time to recompress
anything. And since toast data is relatively large anyway, it's the
stuff you'd want to compress
