| From: | Aleksander Alekseev <a(dot)alekseev(at)postgrespro(dot)ru> |
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| To: | Shay Rojansky <roji(at)roji(dot)org> |
| Cc: | "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Wire protocol compression |
| Date: | 2016-04-21 09:07:40 |
| Message-ID: | 20160421120740.2e7cfe8e@fujitsu |
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> Does it make sense to you guys to discuss compression outside of TLS?
> There are potentially huge bandwidth savings which could benefit both
> WAN and non-WAN scenarios, and decoupling this problem from TLS would
> make it both accessible to everyone (assuming PostgreSQL clients
> follow). It would be a protocol change though.
I personally don't think it's something that should be implemented in
PostgreSQL core. As a third-party TCP-proxy (on both client and server
sides) with gzip/lz4 support perhaps. I'll be not surprised if it turns
out that such projects already exist.
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Best regards,
Aleksander Alekseev
http://eax.me/
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