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Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 12:19:05 -0700
From: "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>
Organization: Command Prompt, Inc.
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To: Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su>
CC: Magnus Hagander <mha@sollentuna.net>, Naz Gassiep <naz@mira.net>,
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Subject: Re: PostgreSQL web site
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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
> _____________________________________________________________
> Oleg Bartunov, Research Scientist, Head of AstroNet (www.astronet.ru),
> Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Russia
> Internet: oleg@sai.msu.su, http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/
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