Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@xxxxxxx> writes: > Tom Lane wrote: >> zeljko <zeljko@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >>> Is there any plans (or somebody already working on) to see compressed >>> protocol in 8.2 ? >> >> Why bother? Run your session through an ssh tunnel and ask it to >> compress. > Wouldn't that add extra libssl overhead? Well, (a) if you're sending your data over a nonlocal network (and over a LAN, you don't need compression), you probably want some encryption. (b) I believe there's a "null cipher" mode for SSL if you truly don't need encryption. regards, tom lane
