Tom Lane wrote:
I would bet that the reason for the slow throughput is that gzip
is fruitlessly searching for compressible sequences.  It won't find many.


Indeed, I didn't expect much reduction in size, but I also didn't expect a four-order of magnitude increase in run-time (i.e. output at 10MB/second going down to 500KB/second), particularly as my estimate was based on gzipping a previously gzipped file. I think it's probably pathological data, as it were. Might even be of interest to gzip's maintainers.

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