> It doesn't matter that much, anyway, in that deflate would also do the > job quite well for any sort of site-to-site or user-to-site WAN link. I used to use that, then switched to bzip. Thing is, if your client is really just issuing SQL, how much does it matter? Compression can't help with latency. Which is why I went with 3 tiers, so that all communication with Postgres occurs on the server, and all communication between server & client is binary, compressed, and a single request/response per user request regardless of how many tables the data is pulled from. -- Scott Ribe scott_ribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.killerbytes.com/ (303) 722-0567 voice -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general