On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 2:33 AM, Stephen Frost <sfr...@snowman.net> wrote: > * Peter Eisentraut (pete...@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. -- greg -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
