Re: Re: [SQL] Re: [GENERAL] lztext and compression ratios...
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Cc: Jan Wieck <JanWieck@Yahoo.com>, PostgreSQL HACKERS <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2000-07-07T15:56:26Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
eisentrp@csis.gvsu.edu writes: > Maybe you just want to use zlib. Let other guys hammer out the details. I've been wondering about that myself. Jan, have you actually benchmarked decompression speed on this method vs. stock zlib? Unless the differential is huge we might want to just skip the patent worries. zlib has a BSD-style license, so we could include it in our distribution to avoid worries about whether it's installed. I've written to Jean-loup for his advice. He's pretty busy these days (CTO at some startup, I believe) but we'll see if he has time to comment. regards, tom lane