Re: Disable OpenSSL compression

From: Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Marko Kreen <markokr(at)gmail(dot)com>, Albe Laurenz <laurenz(dot)albe(at)wien(dot)gv(dot)at>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Disable OpenSSL compression
Date: 2011-11-08 14:41:02
Message-ID: CA+OCxoy3tUDq_wkeBScTTZO+oT67xVwXhnKmiSdxpeaiF1qVRQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
> The fact of the matter is that in most situations where you want SSL,
> ie links across insecure WANs, compression is a win.  Testing a local
> connection, as you seem to have done, is just about 100% irrelevant to
> performance in the real world.

I would disagree with that. Deployments in the cloud may have fast,
but untrustworthy network connections.

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