On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Andy Colson <a...@squeakycode.net> wrote: > I know its been discussed before, and one big problem is license and patent > problems. > > Would this project be a problem: > > http://oldhome.schmorp.de/marc/liblzf.html
It looks like even liblzf is not going to be accepted. I have proposed to only link against liblzf if available for pg_dump and have somehow failed, see: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2010-11/msg00824.php Remember that PostgreSQL has toast tables to compress large values and store them externally, so it still has to be proven that page compression has the same benefit for PostgreSQL as for other databases. Ironically we also use an LZ compression algorithm for toast compression (defined in pg_lzcompress.c). I am still failing to understand why linking against liblzf would bring us deeper into the compression patents mine field than we already are by hardwiring and shipping this other algorithm in pg_lzcompress.c. Joachim -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
