| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com>, PostgreSQL HACKERS <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Re: [SQL] Re: [GENERAL] lztext and compression ratios... |
| Date: | 2000-07-07 16:02:30 |
| Message-ID: | 200007071602.MAA26710@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> eisentrp(at)csis(dot)gvsu(dot)edu writes:
> > Maybe you just want to use zlib. Let other guys hammer out the details.
>
> I've been wondering about that myself. Jan, have you actually
> benchmarked decompression speed on this method vs. stock zlib?
> Unless the differential is huge we might want to just skip the
> patent worries.
If we found later that there was a patent problem, could we just issue a
new release with a new compression algorithm?
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