Re: data compression in protocol?

From: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz <gryzman(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Szymon Guz <mabewlun(at)gmail(dot)com>, postgresql Forums <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: data compression in protocol?
Date: 2011-06-22 15:58:50
Message-ID: BANLkTim-d07uz-765nri=MBr8_424rjjRQ@mail.gmail.com
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2011/6/22 Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz <gryzman(at)gmail(dot)com>:
> The answer is: SSL. SSL will compress things, before encrypting
> (depends on setup obviously).
> As far as I know, postgresql it self doesn't compress any data over the wire.

Could you elaborate a bit on using SSL for that purpose? How do you
set it up for compression? Can you set up openssl for no-op
encryption but to do compression?

merlin

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