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On 12/11/06 10:18, Jonathan Ellis wrote:
> I have a table of log messages.  They are mostly in the 100-200
> character length, which apparently isn't large enough for PG to want
> to compress it (length == octet_length).  I really need to save disk
> space.  I can store it as a bytea and compress it manually (zlib level
> 1 compression gives about 50% savings), but is there a way to force
> pg's own compression before I resort to this?

What can be compressed?  Trailing whitespace or repeating substrings?

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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA

Is "common sense" really valid?
For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that
whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins
are mud people.
However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong.
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