Re: Possible TODO item: copy to/from pipe

From: "Magnus Hagander" <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net>
To: "Dave Page" <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk>, "Andreas Pflug" <pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de>, "Chris Browne" <cbbrowne(at)acm(dot)org>
Cc: <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Possible TODO item: copy to/from pipe
Date: 2006-05-31 20:08:43
Message-ID: 6BCB9D8A16AC4241919521715F4D8BCEA0F9C9@algol.sollentuna.se
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> > I wonder if we'd be able to ship gzip with the windows
> installer, to
> > insure proper integration.
>
> 'Fraid not. It's GPL'd.
>

Well, if we want to go down that route, we could probably hack up
something simple around zlib. IIRC, there's even sample code in there
for how to write a gzip pipe program...

No, not as convenient, but should be handlable.

//Magnus

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