Re: page compression

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Joachim Wieland <joe(at)mcknight(dot)de>
Cc: Andy Colson <andy(at)squeakycode(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: page compression
Date: 2010-12-28 15:50:06
Message-ID: 52866E3F-349E-46C9-B9C0-406FEA0C9031@gmail.com
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On Dec 28, 2010, at 10:33 AM, Joachim Wieland <joe(at)mcknight(dot)de> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Andy Colson <andy(at)squeakycode(dot)net> wrote:
>> I know its been discussed before, and one big problem is license and patent
>> problems.
>>
>> Would this project be a problem:
>>
>> http://oldhome.schmorp.de/marc/liblzf.html
>
> It looks like even liblzf is not going to be accepted. I have proposed
> to only link against liblzf if available for pg_dump and have somehow
> failed, see:

I thought that was mostly about not wanting multiple changes in one patch. I don't see why liblzf would be objectionable in general.

...Robert

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