Re: Re: [SQL] Re: [GENERAL] lztext and compression ratios....

Philip Warner wrote:
> At 21:49 7/07/00 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> >
> >Not bloody likely! Do you want to be in a position where you restart
> >your postmaster and suddenly chunks of your database are inaccessible?
> >That's what could happen to you if someone moves or deletes libz.so.
>
> My question was limited to it's use in pg_dump; rather than basing
> pg_dump's compression bahaviour on configure, base it on it's runtime
> environment. But my guess is you still would be inclined, rather strongly,
> against it.
>
>
> >If we do go with using zlib instead of homegrown code
>
> This begs the obvious question: should pg_dump be using Jan's compression
> code? In all cases/when zlib is not available?

It can't. My code is designed for in-memory attribute values.
It doesn't support streaming - which I assume is required for
pg_dump.

Jan

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