Received: from maia.hub.org (maia-5.hub.org [200.46.204.29]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAFAC133655C for ; Fri, 19 Nov 2010 18:53:18 -0400 (AST) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.29]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 87012-10 for ; Fri, 19 Nov 2010 22:53:12 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us (sss.pgh.pa.us [66.207.139.130]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BFFF133798E for ; Fri, 19 Nov 2010 18:53:11 -0400 (AST) Received: from sss2.sss.pgh.pa.us (tgl@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id oAJMr32e017837; Fri, 19 Nov 2010 17:53:03 -0500 (EST) To: Dimitri Fontaine cc: Joachim Wieland , pgsql-hackers Subject: Re: directory archive format for pg_dump In-reply-to: References: Comments: In-reply-to Dimitri Fontaine message dated "Fri, 19 Nov 2010 20:44:06 +0100" Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 17:53:03 -0500 Message-ID: <17836.1290207183@sss.pgh.pa.us> From: Tom Lane X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.91 tagged_above=-5 required=5 tests=BAYES_00=-1.9, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201011/1307 X-Sequence-Number: 174450 Dimitri Fontaine writes: > I think I'd like to see a separate patch for the new compression > support. Sorry about that, I realize that's extra work… That part of the patch is likely to get rejected outright anyway, so I *strongly* recommend splitting it out. We have generally resisted adding random compression algorithms to pg_dump because of license and patent considerations, and I see no reason to suppose this one is going to pass muster. regards, tom lane