Re: Is a plan for lmza commpression in pg_dump

On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 10:23:17PM -0500, Andrew Chernow wrote:
> Dann Corbit wrote:
> >
> >The LZMA SDK is granted to the public domain:
> >http://www.7-zip.org/sdk.html
> >
> 
> I played with this but found the SDK extremely confusing and flat out 
> horrible. One personal dislike was the unnecessary use of C++; although it 
>  was the horrible API that turned me off.  I'm not even sure if I ever got a 
> test program working.
> 
> LZO (http://www.oberhumer.com/opensource/lzo/) is a great algorithm, easy 
> API with many variants; my fav is LZO1X-1(15).  Its known for its 
> compresison and decompresison speeds ... its blazing fast.  zlib typically 
> gets 5-8% more compression.

LZO rocks. I wonder if the lzo developer would consider a license exception
so that postgresql could use it?  What would we need?

-dg

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