X-Original-To: pgsql-www-postgresql.org@postgresql.org Received: from localhost (wm.hub.org [200.46.204.128]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEF0F9FD14E for ; Mon, 28 Aug 2006 16:12:23 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.128]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 57953-08 for ; Mon, 28 Aug 2006 19:12:15 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey- Received: from mail-ihug.icp-qv1-irony1.iinet.net.au (ihug-mail.icp-qv1-irony1.iinet.net.au [203.59.1.195]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF08E9FC738 for ; Mon, 28 Aug 2006 16:12:12 -0300 (ADT) Received: from 124-168-128-123.dyn.iinet.net.au (HELO [192.168.0.248]) ([124.168.128.123]) by mail-ihug.icp-qv1-irony1.iinet.net.au with ESMTP; 29 Aug 2006 03:12:11 +0800 X-BrightmailFiltered: true X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== X-IronPort-AV: i="4.08,176,1154880000"; d="scan'208,217"; a="620026900:sNHT24812310" Message-ID: <44F33FFA.2080402@mira.net> Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 05:11:54 +1000 From: Naz Gassiep User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (Windows/20060719) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tom Lane CC: Magnus Hagander , "Joshua D. Drake" , pgsql-www@postgresql.org Subject: Re: PostgreSQL web site References: <6BCB9D8A16AC4241919521715F4D8BCEA0FB7D@algol.sollentuna.se> <15501.1156790439@sss.pgh.pa.us> In-Reply-To: <15501.1156790439@sss.pgh.pa.us> Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.376 tagged_above=0 required=5 tests=HTML_30_40, HTML_MESSAGE, MIME_HTML_ONLY X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200608/121 X-Sequence-Number: 10512

Good question. It's definitly worth investigating.


What are we talking about here --- some hack to make users' web browsers
decompress pages on-the-fly?  How much does that slow down the browsing
experience, if you've got an old slow PC?  (I can believe that if you've
got a fast PC and a slow internet connection, it could make things
faster overall ... but the breakeven point is not obvious.)  What are
the odds that people using older browsers will be locked out entirely?

			regards, tom lane

Oh, and there is no chance that older browsers are locked out, mod_deflate and mod_gzip (gzip is the apache 1.3 module, deflate is for apache 2) both only compress if they find that the browser supports it. That being said, gzipped content was supported by browsers since the netscape 3 days.
Regards,
- Naz