On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 17:29, Eric Jain <eric(dot)jain(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> I assume that what they were referring to is the ability to have all
> data that is sent between the client and the server compressed (e.g.
> with zlib; MySQL: useCompression=true). I'll email them to ask for a
> clarification...
So it looks like compression was supported in their commercial version
of PostgreSQL. When it was discontinued, the people working on the
open source version of PostgreSQL apparently didn't see any point in
incorporating the code to support compression, so now there is none
:-(