BUG #1054: inefficient compression of doco html files

The following bug has been logged online:

Bug reference:      1054
Logged by:          Jim Donovan

Email address:      jimd@wahroonga.com

PostgreSQL version: 7.4

Operating system:   linux

Description:        inefficient compression of doco html files

Details: 

In the bzip2 tarballs, the doco HTML files are
first compressed with gzip.
This is inefficient. It would be better to make
the first compression a bzip2. A subsequent hit
with bzip2 cannot undo the less dense compression
attained with gzip.
It would be better still not to first compress; the
subsequent hit with bzip2 would be ample.