On mån, 2010-01-11 at 22:39 -0500, Merlin Moncure wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 7:54 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Merlin Moncure writes:
> >> plus, it looks like that most of the patents have either expired, or
> >> are about to expire. lzo is used all over the place, including the
> >> linux kern
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 7:54 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Merlin Moncure writes:
>> plus, it looks like that most of the patents have either expired, or
>> are about to expire. lzo is used all over the place, including the
>> linux kernel...i think the burden of proof rests with anyone claiming
>> ther
On Mon, 2010-01-11 at 19:54 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Merlin Moncure writes:
> > plus, it looks like that most of the patents have either expired, or
> > are about to expire. lzo is used all over the place, including the
> > linux kernel...i think the burden of proof rests with anyone claiming
> >
Merlin Moncure writes:
> plus, it looks like that most of the patents have either expired, or
> are about to expire. lzo is used all over the place, including the
> linux kernel...i think the burden of proof rests with anyone claiming
> there are patent problems, not the other way around. lzo is
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 5:25 PM, Kevin Grittner
wrote:
> Dimitri Fontaine wrote:
>
>>>
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-performance/2009-08/msg00053.php
>>
>> I knew I was forgetting about something, thanks for the reminder.
>> Damn it, patents.
>
> I'm not sure that there was anything ther
Dimitri Fontaine wrote:
>>
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-performance/2009-08/msg00053.php
>
> I knew I was forgetting about something, thanks for the reminder.
> Damn it, patents.
I'm not sure that there was anything there which absolutely ruled
out using LZ0; all of the patents still
"Kevin Grittner" writes:
> Are the concerns from previous discussions off-base?
>
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-performance/2009-08/msg00053.php
I knew I was forgetting about something, thanks for the reminder. Damn
it, patents.
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Dimitri Fontaine wrote:
> The topic came on IRC and it might be that the later attempts at
> using another library missed one of the offering, namely FastLZ.
> It's made for being quick rather than minimize size, it's MIT
> licenced, 551 lines of portable ansi-C code, already tested on a
> host
