Re: libpq compression

Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com>

From: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com>

To: Phil Sorber <phil@omniti.com>

Cc: Florian Pflug <fgp@phlo.org>, Euler Taveira <euler@timbira.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Pgsql Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Date: 2012-06-14T16:00:31Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Phil Sorber <phil@omniti.com> wrote:
> It doesn't sound like there is a lot of support for this idea, but I
> think it would be nice to get something like lz4
> (http://code.google.com/p/lz4/) or snappy
> (http://code.google.com/p/snappy/) support. Both are BSD-ish licensed.
> It could be useful for streaming replication as well. A hook (as Euler
> mentioned) might be a nice compromise.

There is a lot of support for the idea: it's one of the more requested
features.  I think a well thought out framework that bypassed the
dependency issues via plugging might get some serious traction.
Emphasis 'on well thought out' :-).

merlin