Re: Client/Server compression?

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Kyle <kaf(at)nwlink(dot)com>
Cc: PostgresSQL Hackers Mailing List <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Client/Server compression?
Date: 2002-03-15 01:43:55
Message-ID: 200203150143.g2F1htm27170@candle.pha.pa.us
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Kyle wrote:
> On the subject on client/server compression, does the server
> decompress toast data before sending it to the client? Is so, why
> (other than requiring modifications to the protocol)?
>
> On the flip side, does/could the client toast insert/update data
> before sending it to the server?

It has to decrypt it so the server functions can process it too. Hard
to avoid that. Of course, in some cases, it doesn't need to be
processed on the server, just passed, so it would have to be done
conditionally.

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