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Re: [PATCH] COPY .. COMPRESSED

Greg Stark <stark@mit.edu>

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From: Greg Stark <stark@mit.edu>
To: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2013-01-15T13:35:57Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 2:33 AM, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> wrote:
> * Peter Eisentraut (peter_e@gmx.net) wrote:
>> On 1/14/13 11:28 AM, Stephen Frost wrote:
>> > While there is no option currently for having the server do the
>> > compression before sending the data over the wire.
>>
>> OpenSSL?
>
> To be honest, I expected that to come up earlier in this discussion.
> It'd be redundant to use OpenSSL for compression and then ALSO do
> compression on the client side to save into a custom format dump.

For what it's worth there was a security announcement not long ago
that made OpenSSL disable compression in streams by default. I'm not
sure if it's relevant to Postgres or not.

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greg