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* PostgreSQL web site
@ 2006-08-28 17:41  Naz Gassiep <[email protected]>
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From: Naz Gassiep @ 2006-08-28 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: pgsql-www

Just a suggestion, why don't the web admins turn mod_gzip on? There are 
no downsides, and it would likely make a fairly large impact on 
bandwidth bills. Think of all the people browsing the PG documentation 
(myself included). Not only would bandwidth bills go down, 
responsiveness on the docs would be higher as well.

Even if there is no bandwidth saving (if your b/w is free for instance), 
I'm of the opinion that mod_gzip and mod_deflate should be used unless 
there is a compelling reason not to.

Sorry if this has been discussed before, but I thought it was worth 
mentioning on the off chance it hadn't.

- Naz.



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* Re: PostgreSQL web site
@ 2006-08-28 18:25  Joshua D. Drake <[email protected]>
  parent: Naz Gassiep <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 27+ messages in thread

From: Joshua D. Drake @ 2006-08-28 18:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Naz Gassiep <[email protected]>; +Cc: pgsql-www

Naz Gassiep wrote:
> Just a suggestion, why don't the web admins turn mod_gzip on? There are 
> no downsides, and it would likely make a fairly large impact on 
> bandwidth bills. Think of all the people browsing the PG documentation 
> (myself included). Not only would bandwidth bills go down, 
> responsiveness on the docs would be higher as well.
> 
> Even if there is no bandwidth saving (if your b/w is free for instance), 
> I'm of the opinion that mod_gzip and mod_deflate should be used unless 
> there is a compelling reason not to.
> 
> Sorry if this has been discussed before, but I thought it was worth 
> mentioning on the off chance it hadn't.

Actually that is a very good question... why are we not using mod_deflate?

Joshua D. Drake


> 
> - Naz.
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* Re: PostgreSQL web site
@ 2006-08-28 18:29  Magnus Hagander <[email protected]>
  parent: Joshua D. Drake <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 4 replies; 27+ messages in thread

From: Magnus Hagander @ 2006-08-28 18:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Joshua D. Drake <[email protected]>; Naz Gassiep <[email protected]>; +Cc: pgsql-www

> > Just a suggestion, why don't the web admins turn mod_gzip on? There 
> > are no downsides, and it would likely make a fairly large impact on 
> > bandwidth bills. Think of all the people browsing the PG 
> documentation 
> > (myself included). Not only would bandwidth bills go down, 
> > responsiveness on the docs would be higher as well.
> > 
> > Even if there is no bandwidth saving (if your b/w is free for 
> > instance), I'm of the opinion that mod_gzip and mod_deflate 
> should be 
> > used unless there is a compelling reason not to.
> > 
> > Sorry if this has been discussed before, but I thought it was worth 
> > mentioning on the off chance it hadn't.
> 
> Actually that is a very good question... why are we not using 
> mod_deflate?

Good question. It's definitly worth investigating. It does add load to
the server, but not all that much. And if we have the space (need to
check that on some of the boxen) we could set up pre-compressed static
images and that argument would go away..

//Magnus



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* Re: PostgreSQL web site
@ 2006-08-28 18:40  Tom Lane <[email protected]>
  parent: Magnus Hagander <[email protected]>
  3 siblings, 5 replies; 27+ messages in thread

From: Tom Lane @ 2006-08-28 18:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Magnus Hagander <[email protected]>; +Cc: Joshua D. Drake <[email protected]>; Naz Gassiep <[email protected]>; pgsql-www

"Magnus Hagander" <[email protected]> writes:
>> Actually that is a very good question... why are we not using 
>> mod_deflate?

> 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



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* Re: PostgreSQL web site
@ 2006-08-28 18:48  Oleg Bartunov <[email protected]>
  parent: Magnus Hagander <[email protected]>
  3 siblings, 1 reply; 27+ messages in thread

From: Oleg Bartunov @ 2006-08-28 18:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Magnus Hagander <[email protected]>; +Cc: Joshua D. Drake <[email protected]>; Naz Gassiep <[email protected]>; pgsql-www

Also,

I'd like to see PDA version of web site and archives. Current design 
is very inconvenient.

 	Oleg
On Mon, 28 Aug 2006, Magnus Hagander wrote:

>>> Just a suggestion, why don't the web admins turn mod_gzip on? There
>>> are no downsides, and it would likely make a fairly large impact on
>>> bandwidth bills. Think of all the people browsing the PG
>> documentation
>>> (myself included). Not only would bandwidth bills go down,
>>> responsiveness on the docs would be higher as well.
>>>
>>> Even if there is no bandwidth saving (if your b/w is free for
>>> instance), I'm of the opinion that mod_gzip and mod_deflate
>> should be
>>> used unless there is a compelling reason not to.
>>>
>>> Sorry if this has been discussed before, but I thought it was worth
>>> mentioning on the off chance it hadn't.
>>
>> Actually that is a very good question... why are we not using
>> mod_deflate?
>
> Good question. It's definitly worth investigating. It does add load to
> the server, but not all that much. And if we have the space (need to
> check that on some of the boxen) we could set up pre-compressed static
> images and that argument would go away..
>
> //Magnus
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 		Oleg
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* Re: PostgreSQL web site
@ 2006-08-28 19:09  Naz Gassiep <[email protected]>
  parent: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
  4 siblings, 0 replies; 27+ messages in thread

From: Naz Gassiep @ 2006-08-28 19:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Tom Lane <[email protected]>; +Cc: Magnus Hagander <[email protected]>; Joshua D. Drake <[email protected]>; pgsql-www

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
  <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type">
</head>
<body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">
<pre wrap="">
</pre>
<blockquote cite="[email protected]" type="cite">
  <pre wrap=""><!---->
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</pre>
</blockquote>
I have been using mod_deflate for years on my web server, and have yet
to notice _any_ difference on even very old hardware. Furthermore, the
additional load to the server is quite small.<br>
<br>
If you are concerned about widespread impact on users, consider that
slashdot and google are both mod_deflated.<br>
<br>
- Naz.<br>
</body>
</html>



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* Re: PostgreSQL web site
@ 2006-08-28 19:10  John Hansen <[email protected]>
  parent: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
  4 siblings, 0 replies; 27+ messages in thread

From: John Hansen @ 2006-08-28 19:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Tom Lane <[email protected]>; Magnus Hagander <[email protected]>; +Cc: Joshua D. Drake <[email protected]>; Naz Gassiep <[email protected]>; pgsql-www

Tom Lane Wrote:
>"Magnus Hagander" <[email protected]> writes:
>>> Actually that is a very good question... why are we not using 
>>> mod_deflate?
>
>> 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?

Documents are only compressed if the browser requests one, so nobody would get locked out.
And for the odd users with a slow PC, they would probably already have cofigured their browser so it doesn't request compressed documents.

Kind Regards,

John



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* Re: PostgreSQL web site
@ 2006-08-28 19:11  Naz Gassiep <[email protected]>
  parent: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
  4 siblings, 0 replies; 27+ messages in thread

From: Naz Gassiep @ 2006-08-28 19:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Tom Lane <[email protected]>; +Cc: Magnus Hagander <[email protected]>; Joshua D. Drake <[email protected]>; pgsql-www

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
  <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type">
</head>
<body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">
<br>
<blockquote cite="[email protected]" type="cite">
  <blockquote type="cite">
    <pre wrap="">Good question. It's definitly worth investigating.
    </pre>
  </blockquote>
  <pre wrap=""><!---->
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

  </pre>
</blockquote>
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.<br>
Regards,<br>
- Naz<br>
</body>
</html>



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* Re: PostgreSQL web site
@ 2006-08-28 19:12  Magnus Hagander <[email protected]>
  parent: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
  4 siblings, 1 reply; 27+ messages in thread

From: Magnus Hagander @ 2006-08-28 19:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Tom Lane <[email protected]>; +Cc: Joshua D. Drake <[email protected]>; Naz Gassiep <[email protected]>; pgsql-www

> >> Actually that is a very good question... why are we not using 
> >> mod_deflate?
> 
> > 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? 
Yes.

> 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.) 

In most cases it's faster or unnoticably slower. At the speed your
machine would have to be to notice the problem, I don't think you can
load a modern-enough browser to actually look at the site.

> What are the odds 
> that people using older browsers will be locked out entirely?

They should be zero, if you use mod_deflate.
The browser sends an Accept-encoding: deflate (or similar, I'm not 100%
on the name of the header, and too lazy to look it up). If this is not
present in the request, an uncompressed version of the page is sent back
to the browser.

//Magnus



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* Re: PostgreSQL web site
@ 2006-08-28 19:13  Naz Gassiep <[email protected]>
  parent: Magnus Hagander <[email protected]>
  3 siblings, 0 replies; 27+ messages in thread

From: Naz Gassiep @ 2006-08-28 19:13 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Magnus Hagander <[email protected]>; +Cc: Joshua D. Drake <[email protected]>; pgsql-www

Magnus Hagander wrote:
> Good question. It's definitly worth investigating. It does add load to
> the server, but not all that much. And if we have the space (need to
> check that on some of the boxen) we could set up pre-compressed static
> images and that argument would go away..
>
> //Magnus
>
> ---------------------------(end of broadcast)---------------------------
>
>   
I generally only compress HTML and other text formats ignoring images, 
PDFs and other binary data. I would think this would have a huge impact 
on the PG site, which would deliver a lot of text serving documentation
Regards,
- Naz



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* Re: PostgreSQL web site
@ 2006-08-28 19:15  Joshua D. Drake <[email protected]>
  parent: Magnus Hagander <[email protected]>
  3 siblings, 2 replies; 27+ messages in thread

From: Joshua D. Drake @ 2006-08-28 19:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Magnus Hagander <[email protected]>; +Cc: Naz Gassiep <[email protected]>; pgsql-www

> 
> Good question. It's definitly worth investigating. It does add load to
> the server, but not all that much. And if we have the space (need to
> check that on some of the boxen) we could set up pre-compressed static
> images and that argument would go away..

we can configure deflate so that it only compresses the html not the images.

Joshua D. Drake


> 
> //Magnus
> 


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* Re: PostgreSQL web site
@ 2006-08-28 19:17  Joshua D. Drake <[email protected]>
  parent: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
  4 siblings, 0 replies; 27+ messages in thread

From: Joshua D. Drake @ 2006-08-28 19:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Tom Lane <[email protected]>; +Cc: Magnus Hagander <[email protected]>; Naz Gassiep <[email protected]>; pgsql-www

Tom Lane wrote:
> "Magnus Hagander" <[email protected]> writes:
>>> Actually that is a very good question... why are we not using 
>>> mod_deflate?
> 
>> 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? 

No it is not a hack. With HTTP1.1 browers have the ability to compress 
and decompress on the fly. This is done in the negotiation between

 > How much does that slow down the browsing
> experience, if you've got an old slow PC?

Well good question. How slow are we talking? If we are talking a AMD 300 
people are likely not using broadband and it wouldn't matter anyway 
because either way they are use to slow.

>  (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?

None. Because it will fall back to 1.0 if your browser doesn't support 
it. The browser will negotiate with the web server to determine the best 
route to retrieve the data.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake


> 
> 			regards, tom lane
> 


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* Re: PostgreSQL web site
@ 2006-08-28 19:19  Joshua D. Drake <[email protected]>
  parent: Oleg Bartunov <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 27+ messages in thread

From: Joshua D. Drake @ 2006-08-28 19:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Oleg Bartunov <[email protected]>; +Cc: Magnus Hagander <[email protected]>; Naz Gassiep <[email protected]>; pgsql-www

Oleg Bartunov wrote:
> Also,
> 
> I'd like to see PDA version of web site and archives. Current design is 
> very inconvenient.

Egad... what a pain. Please feel free to work one up for us, but a PDA 
version is pretty much a pain in the arse for little benefit.

Sincerely,

Josuha D. Drake


> 
>     Oleg
> On Mon, 28 Aug 2006, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> 
>>>> Just a suggestion, why don't the web admins turn mod_gzip on? There
>>>> are no downsides, and it would likely make a fairly large impact on
>>>> bandwidth bills. Think of all the people browsing the PG
>>> documentation
>>>> (myself included). Not only would bandwidth bills go down,
>>>> responsiveness on the docs would be higher as well.
>>>>
>>>> Even if there is no bandwidth saving (if your b/w is free for
>>>> instance), I'm of the opinion that mod_gzip and mod_deflate
>>> should be
>>>> used unless there is a compelling reason not to.
>>>>
>>>> Sorry if this has been discussed before, but I thought it was worth
>>>> mentioning on the off chance it hadn't.
>>>
>>> Actually that is a very good question... why are we not using
>>> mod_deflate?
>>
>> Good question. It's definitly worth investigating. It does add load to
>> the server, but not all that much. And if we have the space (need to
>> check that on some of the boxen) we could set up pre-compressed static
>> images and that argument would go away..
>>
>> //Magnus
>>
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> 
>     Regards,
>         Oleg
> _____________________________________________________________
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> Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Russia
> Internet: [email protected], http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/
> phone: +007(495)939-16-83, +007(495)939-23-83
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* Re: PostgreSQL web site
@ 2006-08-28 19:19  John Hansen <[email protected]>
  parent: Joshua D. Drake <[email protected]>
  1 sibling, 1 reply; 27+ messages in thread

From: John Hansen @ 2006-08-28 19:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Joshua D. Drake <[email protected]>; Magnus Hagander <[email protected]>; +Cc: Naz Gassiep <[email protected]>; pgsql-www

Joshua D. Drake Wrote

> we can configure deflate so that it only compresses the html 
> not the images.

I think he meant, pre compressed html pages.

Eg,:

index.html
index.html.gz

etc...

... John



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* Re: PostgreSQL web site
@ 2006-08-28 19:29  Naz Gassiep <[email protected]>
  parent: John Hansen <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 27+ messages in thread

From: Naz Gassiep @ 2006-08-28 19:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: John Hansen <[email protected]>; +Cc: Joshua D. Drake <[email protected]>; Magnus Hagander <[email protected]>; pgsql-www

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
  <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type">
</head>
<body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">
<br>
John Hansen wrote:
<blockquote
 cite="[email protected]"
 type="cite">
  <pre wrap="">Joshua D. Drake Wrote

  </pre>
  <blockquote type="cite">
    <pre wrap="">we can configure deflate so that it only compresses the html 
not the images.
    </pre>
  </blockquote>
  <pre wrap=""><!---->
I think he meant, pre compressed html pages.

Eg,:

index.html
index.html.gz

etc...

  </pre>
</blockquote>
Oh, thats a bad idea, I think, as it would hugely increase the
maintenance work on the site, for a marginal gain in server
performance. The load increase really is minimal. If our servers are so
close to breaking point that this is an issue then we'll need new ones
very soon anyway.<br>
Regards,<br>
- Naz<br>
</body>
</html>



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* Re: PostgreSQL web site
@ 2006-08-28 19:34  Joshua D. Drake <[email protected]>
  parent: Naz Gassiep <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 27+ messages in thread

From: Joshua D. Drake @ 2006-08-28 19:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Naz Gassiep <[email protected]>; +Cc: John Hansen <[email protected]>; Magnus Hagander <[email protected]>; pgsql-www


>> index.html
>> index.html.gz
>>
>> etc...
>>
>>   
> Oh, thats a bad idea, I think, as it would hugely increase the maintenance work 
> on the site, for a marginal gain in server performance. The load increase really 
> is minimal. If our servers are so close to breaking point that this is an issue 
> then we'll need new ones very soon anyway.

Yeah... no. Mod_deflate will allow auto-negotiation so that the 
information can be dealt with either way. No reason to increase the 
workload.

> Regards,
> - Naz


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* Re: PostgreSQL web site
@ 2006-08-28 19:45  Tom Lane <[email protected]>
  parent: Magnus Hagander <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 27+ messages in thread

From: Tom Lane @ 2006-08-28 19:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Magnus Hagander <[email protected]>; +Cc: Joshua D. Drake <[email protected]>; Naz Gassiep <[email protected]>; pgsql-www

"Magnus Hagander" <[email protected]> writes:
>> What are the odds 
>> that people using older browsers will be locked out entirely?

> They should be zero, if you use mod_deflate.
> The browser sends an Accept-encoding: deflate (or similar, I'm not 100%
> on the name of the header, and too lazy to look it up). If this is not
> present in the request, an uncompressed version of the page is sent back
> to the browser.

Got it.  Thanks for the explanation.

			regards, tom lane



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* Re: PostgreSQL web site
@ 2006-08-28 19:48  Magnus Hagander <[email protected]>
  parent: Joshua D. Drake <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 27+ messages in thread

From: Magnus Hagander @ 2006-08-28 19:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Joshua D. Drake <[email protected]>; Naz Gassiep <[email protected]>; +Cc: John Hansen <[email protected]>; pgsql-www

> >> index.html
> >> index.html.gz
> >>
> >> etc...
> >>
> >>   
> > Oh, thats a bad idea, I think, as it would hugely increase the 
> > maintenance work on the site, for a marginal gain in server 
> > performance. The load increase really is minimal. If our 
> servers are 
> > so close to breaking point that this is an issue then we'll 
> need new ones very soon anyway.
> 
> Yeah... no. Mod_deflate will allow auto-negotiation so that 
> the information can be dealt with either way. No reason to 
> increase the workload.

We're nowhere near the load that our static servers can deliver. Even
during release time, when it increases sometimes hundredfold.
That doesn't mean we shouldn't optimize when we can do so at trivial
cost, though.

//Magnus



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* Re: PostgreSQL web site
@ 2006-08-28 19:56  Joshua D. Drake <[email protected]>
  parent: Magnus Hagander <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 27+ messages in thread

From: Joshua D. Drake @ 2006-08-28 19:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Magnus Hagander <[email protected]>; +Cc: Naz Gassiep <[email protected]>; John Hansen <[email protected]>; pgsql-www


> We're nowhere near the load that our static servers can deliver. Even
> during release time, when it increases sometimes hundredfold.
> That doesn't mean we shouldn't optimize when we can do so at trivial
> cost, though.

Well more specifically, this will be a great boon for lowering bandwidth 
requirements on both sides of the content delivery.

Joshua D. Drake


> 
> //Magnus
> 


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* Re: PostgreSQL web site
@ 2006-08-28 20:03  Dave Page <[email protected]>
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From: Dave Page @ 2006-08-28 20:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Joshua D. Drake <[email protected]>; Oleg Bartunov <[email protected]>; +Cc: Magnus Hagander <[email protected]>; Naz Gassiep <[email protected]>; pgsql-www



-----Original Message-----
From: "Joshua D. Drake" <[email protected]>
To: "Oleg Bartunov" <[email protected]>
Cc: "Magnus Hagander" <[email protected]>; "Naz Gassiep" <[email protected]>; "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Sent: 28/08/06 20:19
Subject: Re: [pgsql-www] PostgreSQL web site

> a pain in the arse for little benefit.

Wow,  never seen a left-pondian spell it that way - are you secretly a Brit or Aussie?

/D


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* Re: PostgreSQL web site
@ 2006-08-28 20:12  Tom Lane <[email protected]>
  parent: Joshua D. Drake <[email protected]>
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From: Tom Lane @ 2006-08-28 20:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Joshua D. Drake <[email protected]>; +Cc: Magnus Hagander <[email protected]>; Naz Gassiep <[email protected]>; pgsql-www

"Joshua D. Drake" <[email protected]> writes:
> we can configure deflate so that it only compresses the html not the images.

One would certainly hope so, since the images are compressed already.

			regards, tom lane



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* Re: PostgreSQL web site
@ 2006-08-28 20:28  Oleg Bartunov <[email protected]>
  parent: Joshua D. Drake <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 27+ messages in thread

From: Oleg Bartunov @ 2006-08-28 20:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Joshua D. Drake <[email protected]>; +Cc: Magnus Hagander <[email protected]>; Naz Gassiep <[email protected]>; pgsql-www

On Mon, 28 Aug 2006, Joshua D. Drake wrote:

> Oleg Bartunov wrote:
>> Also,
>> 
>> I'd like to see PDA version of web site and archives. Current design is 
>> very inconvenient.
>
> Egad... what a pain. Please feel free to work one up for us, but a PDA 
> version is pretty much a pain in the arse for little benefit.

As a first step, changing CSS optimized for PDA would be ok. Archives is
an our knowledgebase and sometimes I need to search/read them using my 
PDA (it's 640x480). But I don't insist :)

>
> Sincerely,
>
> Josuha D. Drake
>
>
>>
>>     Oleg
>> On Mon, 28 Aug 2006, Magnus Hagander wrote:
>> 
>>>>> Just a suggestion, why don't the web admins turn mod_gzip on? There
>>>>> are no downsides, and it would likely make a fairly large impact on
>>>>> bandwidth bills. Think of all the people browsing the PG
>>>> documentation
>>>>> (myself included). Not only would bandwidth bills go down,
>>>>> responsiveness on the docs would be higher as well.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Even if there is no bandwidth saving (if your b/w is free for
>>>>> instance), I'm of the opinion that mod_gzip and mod_deflate
>>>> should be
>>>>> used unless there is a compelling reason not to.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Sorry if this has been discussed before, but I thought it was worth
>>>>> mentioning on the off chance it hadn't.
>>>> 
>>>> Actually that is a very good question... why are we not using
>>>> mod_deflate?
>>> 
>>> Good question. It's definitly worth investigating. It does add load to
>>> the server, but not all that much. And if we have the space (need to
>>> check that on some of the boxen) we could set up pre-compressed static
>>> images and that argument would go away..
>>> 
>>> //Magnus
>>> 
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>>
>>     Regards,
>>         Oleg
>> _____________________________________________________________
>> Oleg Bartunov, Research Scientist, Head of AstroNet (www.astronet.ru),
>> Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Russia
>> Internet: [email protected], http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/
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>
>
>

 	Regards,
 		Oleg
_____________________________________________________________
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Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Russia
Internet: [email protected], http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/
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* Re: PostgreSQL web site
@ 2006-08-28 20:46  Joshua D. Drake <[email protected]>
  parent: Dave Page <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 27+ messages in thread

From: Joshua D. Drake @ 2006-08-28 20:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Dave Page <[email protected]>; +Cc: Oleg Bartunov <[email protected]>; Magnus Hagander <[email protected]>; Naz Gassiep <[email protected]>; pgsql-www

Dave Page wrote:
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Joshua D. Drake" <[email protected]>
> To: "Oleg Bartunov" <[email protected]>
> Cc: "Magnus Hagander" <[email protected]>; "Naz Gassiep" <[email protected]>; "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
> Sent: 28/08/06 20:19
> Subject: Re: [pgsql-www] PostgreSQL web site
> 
>> a pain in the arse for little benefit.
> 
> Wow,  never seen a left-pondian spell it that way - are you secretly a Brit or Aussie?

Heh no I am pure American, which means I am everything and nothing. I 
use that spelling when I want to swear without swearing. Similar to the 
use of "bloody".

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake


> 
> /D
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* Re: PostgreSQL web site
@ 2006-08-29 14:22  Devrim GUNDUZ <[email protected]>
  parent: Oleg Bartunov <[email protected]>
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From: Devrim GUNDUZ @ 2006-08-29 14:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Oleg Bartunov <[email protected]>; +Cc: Joshua D. Drake <[email protected]>; Magnus Hagander <[email protected]>; Naz Gassiep <[email protected]>; pgsql-www

Hello,

On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 00:28 +0400, Oleg Bartunov wrote:
> > Egad... what a pain. Please feel free to work one up for us, but a 
> > PDAversion is pretty much a pain in the arse for little benefit.
> 
> As a first step, changing CSS optimized for PDA would be ok. Archives
> is an our knowledgebase and sometimes I need to search/read them using
> my PDA (it's 640x480). 

I want a lynx and links version of the PostgreSQL website, please ;)

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* Re: PostgreSQL web site
@ 2006-08-29 14:44  Dave Page <[email protected]>
  parent: Devrim GUNDUZ <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 27+ messages in thread

From: Dave Page @ 2006-08-29 14:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Devrim GUNDUZ <[email protected]>; Oleg Bartunov <[email protected]>; +Cc: Joshua D. Drake <[email protected]>; Magnus Hagander <[email protected]>; Naz Gassiep <[email protected]>; pgsql-www

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] 
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Devrim GUNDUZ
> Sent: 29 August 2006 15:22
> To: Oleg Bartunov
> Cc: Joshua D. Drake; Magnus Hagander; Naz Gassiep; 
> [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [pgsql-www] PostgreSQL web site
> 
> Hello,
> 
> On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 00:28 +0400, Oleg Bartunov wrote:
> > > Egad... what a pain. Please feel free to work one up for 
> us, but a 
> > > PDAversion is pretty much a pain in the arse for little benefit.
> > 
> > As a first step, changing CSS optimized for PDA would be 
> ok. Archives
> > is an our knowledgebase and sometimes I need to search/read 
> them using
> > my PDA (it's 640x480). 
> 
> I want a lynx and links version of the PostgreSQL website, please ;)

<joke tagtype="just to make sure it's obvious">And I'd like a video of
the conference highlights</joke>

:-)

/D



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* Re: PostgreSQL web site
@ 2006-08-29 15:12  Devrim GUNDUZ <[email protected]>
  parent: Dave Page <[email protected]>
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From: Devrim GUNDUZ @ 2006-08-29 15:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Dave Page <[email protected]>; +Cc: Oleg Bartunov <[email protected]>; Joshua D. Drake <[email protected]>; Magnus Hagander <[email protected]>; Naz Gassiep <[email protected]>; pgsql-www

Hello,

On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 15:44 +0100, Dave Page wrote:
> > I want a lynx and links version of the PostgreSQL website, please ;)
> 
> <joke tagtype="just to make sure it's obvious">And I'd like a video of
> the conference highlights</joke> 

/me hides :-D

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* Re: PostgreSQL web site
@ 2006-09-06 19:01  Naz Gassiep <[email protected]>
  parent: Joshua D. Drake <[email protected]>
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From: Naz Gassiep @ 2006-09-06 19:01 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: pgsql-www


> Heh no I am pure American, which means I am everything and nothing. I 
> use that spelling when I want to swear without swearing. Similar to 
> the use of "bloody".
>
It's actually supposed to be the other way around hehe. "Ass" is the old 
English word for donkey, while "arse" is the reference to one's 
buttocks. So describing someone as an "ass" could really be argued to be 
quite proper even in heated conversation, as it could be a reference to 
their stubborn nature or unwillingness to compromise, while calling 
another an "arse" is an unambiguous derogatory linking between them and 
a posterior.




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2006-08-28 19:13     ` Naz Gassiep <[email protected]>
2006-08-28 19:15     ` Joshua D. Drake <[email protected]>
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2006-08-28 19:29         ` Naz Gassiep <[email protected]>
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2006-08-28 19:48             ` Magnus Hagander <[email protected]>
2006-08-28 19:56               ` Joshua D. Drake <[email protected]>
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