> Bruce Momjian...
> Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > Anyway I think we are way past feature freeze, and XLog "compression"
> > could made it into 8.1 without loss of functionality. At that point we
> > will say "now PITR uses less space on the archiver" and that's it.
> >
> > (Maybe we could even think about LZ-compressing the remaining WAL
> > entries on the archived logs?)
>
> Agreed. I added a mention of it in the TODO list:
>
> Tom Lane...
> I have zero interest in touching this problem for 8.0 ...
OK, thats unanimously out for 8.0.
Yes, you can compress stuff with a tool - though its even easier if the data
isn't there in the first place.
Thanks for the quick replies - saved me some time.
Best Regards, Simon Riggs