Craig Ringer <craig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I get 19 Mbit/s from gzip (deflate) on my 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo laptop. With > lzop (LZO) the machine achieves 45 Mbit/s. In both cases only a single > core is used. With 7zip (LZMA) it only manages 3.1 Mb/s using BOTH cores > together. It'd be interesting to know where pg_lzcompress fits in. > Wire protocol compression support in PostgreSQL would probably still be > extremely useful for Internet or WAN based clients, though, Use an ssh tunnel ... get compression *and* encryption, which you surely should want on a WAN link. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general