On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 11:33 PM, Stephen Frost <sfr...@snowman.net> wrote: > Now, protocol-level on-the-wire compression > is another option, but there's quite a few drawbacks to that and quite a > bit of work involved. Having support for COPY-based compression could > be an answer for many cases where on-the-wire compression is desirable.
Like? Postgres' packetized protocol lends itself quite well for this kind of thing. It could even be done on a packet-by-packet basis. The only drawback I see, is that it pretty much rules out piping through arbitrary commands (a protocol needs to be very clearly defined). -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
