On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 10:55:04AM -0500, Stephen Frost wrote:
> * Peter Eisentraut (peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net) wrote:
> > Operating on compressed files transparently in file_fdw is obviously
> > useful, but why only gzip?
> 
> This isn't really an argument, imv.  It's only gzip *right this moment*
> because that's all that I implemented.  I've already offered to add
> bzip2 or whatever else people would like.

And this leads to support-my-compression-binary-of-the-day mess.  Why
not just allow them to do '|compression-binary'?

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