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From: John Hansen <[email protected]>
To: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: Magnus Hagander <[email protected]>
Cc: Joshua D. Drake <[email protected]>
Cc: Naz Gassiep <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL web site
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 05:10:46 +1000
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

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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