From your description, it sounds like this might have been a feature that was contemplated but not completed. I expect you'll have to ask Tim Bunce or someone else in the DBI team to get the full story.

I don't bother doing compression for traffic going to a database -- in my case, the data's not that frequent or lumpy, I don't have that many servers, and the local network is a 100Mb/sec guy. However, I do have tasks that regularly rsync data between servers, and some of that is text and highly compressible. Happily, rsync takes care of that automagically, so I never have to think about it.

Are you trying this out as an experiment, or do you have good information that your system could greatly benefit from this feature? I'm just worrying you may be doing premature optimziation.

Alex / talexb / Toronto

"Groklaw is the open-source mentality applied to legal research" ~ Linus Torvalds

In reply to Re^5: dbiproxy and compression by talexb
in thread dbiproxy and compression by bcrust

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