Re: Is a plan for lmza commpression in pg_dump

daveg wrote:
> 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?
>
>
>   

Probably a BSD license or a clean room implementation which we could BSD 
license.

cheers

andrew