[Qgis-developer] Postgis-Provider and compression

[G. Allegri]

I missed that email, but I support that and yours suggestion (anyway
it could be implemented). This is a critical feature for real world
distributed applications.
If Sandro is reading: how did you meant it?

giovanni

2010/8/9 Andreas Neumann <a.neumann at carto.net>:
> Hi all,
>
> I wonder if the current Postgis-Provider somehow supports or would support
> compression during data-transfer between the QGIS-client and the remote
> Postgis-server. In my experience, data transfer across slower connection
> (DSL, cable) is often rather slow.
>
> Would there be, technically, a way to accelerate data transfer over slower
> network connections?
>
> I also remember that Sandro Santilli once suggested a keyword substitution
> parameter for the psql provider so one could use simplify based on map
> resolution/map scale. This should also help to speed up data transfer on
> slower connections
> (http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-developer/2010-May/009923.html) -
> unfortunately noone answered to his mail. I think the proposal would be
> interesting to follow.
>
> Andreas
>
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