On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>
> The fact of the matter is that in most situations where you want SSL,
> ie links across insecure WANs, compression is a win. Testing a local
> connection, as you seem to have done, is just about 100% irrelevant to
> performance in the real world.
I would disagree with that. Deployments in the cloud may have fast,
but untrustworthy network connections.
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