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Re: libpq compression

Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndquadrant.fr>

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From: Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndQuadrant.fr>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Euler Taveira <euler@timbira.com>, Marko Kreen <markokr@gmail.com>, Florian Pflug <fgp@phlo.org>, Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, Pgsql Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Claes Jakobsson <claes@versed.se>
Date: 2012-06-25T19:21:32Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
> Or that it takes less code/generates cleaner code...

So we're talking about some LZO things such as snappy from google, and
that would be another run time dependency IIUC.

I think it's time to talk about fastlz:

  http://fastlz.org/
  http://code.google.com/p/fastlz/source/browse/trunk/fastlz.c

  551 lines of C code under MIT license, works also under windows

I guess it would be easy (and safe) enough to embed in our tree should
we decide going this way.

Regards,
-- 
Dimitri Fontaine
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