Re: Question: merit / feasibility of compressing frontend

> If someone's willing to put the time into this, then compression without
> SSL feels like a good idea.  Not everyone uses SSL.  Bad network latency

Well, we are already putting the time into it ;). I expect to have it
complete by the end of the week. If people like we can keep in touch about
it.

Sincerely,

Joshua Drake



> has a very undesirable effect on the establishment of SSL connections,
> and this is especially of interest in those cases where people need to
> get short "bursty" amounts of SQL data across a connection as fast as
> possible.  Aka, client using a frontend app to remote databases over a
> modem, and not using persistent connections.
>
> Establishment of an individual SSL session using OpenSSL can take over a
> second in this case.  Not consistently-always, but I had to time it (on
> fast hardware too) for a contract recently when deciding on network
> layer transports.
>
> Hope this gives some decent food for thought.
>
> :-)
>
> Regards and best wishes,
>
> Justin Clift
>
> >                         regards, tom lane
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