Received: from makus.postgresql.org (makus.postgresql.org [98.129.198.125]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A821CE6EC for ; Fri, 15 Jun 2012 12:58:24 -0300 (ADT) Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us ([66.207.139.130]) by makus.postgresql.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SfYul-0004Pv-3C for pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org; Fri, 15 Jun 2012 15:58:23 +0000 Received: from sss2.sss.pgh.pa.us (tgl@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q5FFvxVR028373; Fri, 15 Jun 2012 11:57:59 -0400 (EDT) From: Tom Lane To: Magnus Hagander cc: Heikki Linnakangas , Florian Pflug , Bruce Momjian , Euler Taveira , Pgsql Hackers Subject: Re: libpq compression In-reply-to: References: <4FD9698F.2090407@timbira.com> <29853.1339651170@sss.pgh.pa.us> <4FD9E70B.9040607@timbira.com> <11502.1339699384@sss.pgh.pa.us> <20120615021938.GA21704@momjian.us> <22690C61-E960-4A2A-BFD5-DAD3D3B5C474@phlo.org> <4FDB4D0F.6090206@enterprisedb.com> <4FDB5396.4050402@enterprisedb.com> Comments: In-reply-to Magnus Hagander message dated "Fri, 15 Jun 2012 23:28:48 +0800" Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 11:57:59 -0400 Message-ID: <28372.1339775879@sss.pgh.pa.us> X-Pg-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) X-Archive-Number: 201206/727 X-Sequence-Number: 209567 Magnus Hagander writes: > On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 11:24 PM, Heikki Linnakangas > wrote: >> Umm, then you use a real SSL libray, not the dummy one? > But (in this scenario, and so far nobody has proven it to be wrong) > there exists no real SSL library that does support compression. I do not think it is incumbent on this project to rectify that problem ... especially when nobody has proven that such a library exists (and is not obsolete, nor are its authors busy fixing the lack so as to be interoperable with openssl). regards, tom lane