Re: libpq compression

> On 8 Feb 2019, at 10:15, Konstantin Knizhnik <k.knizhnik@postgrespro.ru> wrote:

> Frankly speaking, I do not think that such flexibility in choosing compression algorithms is really needed.
> I do not expect that there will be many situations where old client has to communicate with new server or visa versa.
> In most cases both client and server belongs to the same postgres distributive and so implements the same compression
algorithm.
> As far as we are compressing only temporary data (traffic), the problem of providing backward compatibility seems to
benot so important. 

I don’t think this assumption is entirely valid, and would risk unnecessary
breakage.

cheers ./daniel