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Re: Disable OpenSSL compression

Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org>

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From: Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Marko Kreen <markokr@gmail.com>, Albe Laurenz <laurenz.albe@wien.gv.at>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2011-11-08T14:41:02Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>
> The fact of the matter is that in most situations where you want SSL,
> ie links across insecure WANs, compression is a win.  Testing a local
> connection, as you seem to have done, is just about 100% irrelevant to
> performance in the real world.

I would disagree with that. Deployments in the cloud may have fast,
but untrustworthy network connections.

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