Re: libpq compression

On 6/5/18 03:09, Michael Paquier wrote:
> I just had a quick look at this patch, lured by the smell of your latest
> messages...  And it seems to me that this patch needs a heavy amount of
> work as presented.  There are a couple of things which are not really
> nice, like forcing the presentation of the compression option in the
> startup packet to begin with.

Yeah, at this point we will probably need a discussion and explanation
of the protocol behavior this is adding, such as how to negotiate
different compression settings.

Unrelatedly, I suggest skipping the addition of -Z options to various
client-side tools.  This is unnecessary, since generic connection
options can already be specified via -d typically, and it creates
confusion because -Z is already used to specify output compression by
some programs.