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Re: Question: merit / feasibility of compressing frontend

Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to>

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From: Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to>
To: "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Chris Albertson <chrisalbertson90278@yahoo.com>, Neil Conway <nconway@klamath.dyndns.org>, pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Date: 2002-07-16T11:32:35Z
Lists: pgsql-general 
On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 01:59:10 -0700,
  "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com> wrote:
> 
>   If you are dealing with 1 meg of text, across a distributed application 
> where the client connect via a VPN at 56k, we are talking 4 minutes. If we 
> compress and send it across that could be 30 seconds (mileage will vary).

Shouldn't the VPN be doing compression?