Re: Compression

From: Eric Jain <eric(dot)jain(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: pgsql-jdbc(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Compression
Date: 2009-10-26 23:45:38
Message-ID: e48479d40910261645i1bf166bbk999c6d42d298342b@mail.gmail.com
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On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 12:26, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> I seem to remember that that was discussed and the conclusion was that
> it was reinventing the wheel --- you could perfectly well use ssl/ssh
> compression if you needed it, and you'd want encryption too anyway
> in most plausible scenarios where compression makes sense.  (If the
> network trip is long enough to justify compression, it's likely not
> all secure.)

VPN?

In any case: Is setting ssl=true alone enough to ensure that
compression is used? Is there a simple way to test whether or not
compression is used?

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