Re: Is a plan for lmza commpression in pg_dump

daveg wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 10:23:17PM -0500, Andrew Chernow wrote:
> > Dann Corbit wrote:
> > >
> > >The LZMA SDK is granted to the public domain:
> > >http://www.7-zip.org/sdk.html
> > >
> >
> > I played with this but found the SDK extremely confusing and flat out
> > horrible. One personal dislike was the unnecessary use of C++; although it
> > was the horrible API that turned me off. I'm not even sure if I ever got a
> > test program working.
> >
> > LZO (http://www.oberhumer.com/opensource/lzo/) is a great algorithm, easy
> > API with many variants; my fav is LZO1X-1(15). Its known for its
> > compresison and decompresison speeds ... its blazing fast. zlib typically
> > gets 5-8% more compression.
>
> LZO rocks. I wonder if the lzo developer would consider a license exception
> so that postgresql could use it? What would we need?

The chance of us using anything but one zlib is near zero so please do
not persue this; this discussion comes up much too often.

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