Peter Eisentraut escribió: > James Mansion wrote: >> Peter Eisentraut wrote: >>>> c. Are there any well-known pitfalls/objections which would prevent >>>> me from >>>> changing the algorithm to something more efficient (read: IO-bound)? >>> >>> copyright licenses and patents >>> >> Would it be possible to have a plugin facility? > > Well, before we consider that, we'd probably want to see proof about the > effectiveness of other compression methods.
I did some measurements months ago, and it was very clear that libz compression was a lot tighter than the PGLZ code. -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
