| From: | Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu> |
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| To: | Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [PATCH] COPY .. COMPRESSED |
| Date: | 2013-01-15 13:35:57 |
| Message-ID: | CAM-w4HOH4kAkUvBsM7=fb7=P2A1Mx=vLGEH7Kfj4ZUdGqfenjw@mail.gmail.com |
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On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 2:33 AM, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> wrote:
> * Peter Eisentraut (peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net) wrote:
>> On 1/14/13 11:28 AM, Stephen Frost wrote:
>> > While there is no option currently for having the server do the
>> > compression before sending the data over the wire.
>>
>> OpenSSL?
>
> To be honest, I expected that to come up earlier in this discussion.
> It'd be redundant to use OpenSSL for compression and then ALSO do
> compression on the client side to save into a custom format dump.
For what it's worth there was a security announcement not long ago
that made OpenSSL disable compression in streams by default. I'm not
sure if it's relevant to Postgres or not.
--
greg
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