On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 8:36 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > "Stephen R. van den Berg" <s...@cuci.nl> writes: >> - I currently have difficulty imagining applications that actually do >> lots of substring extractions from large compressible fields. > > The code that's in there to make this happen was written by people who > needed the feature. They're going to be upset with you if you propose > disabling it.
Why didn't they just turn off compression for the relevant columns? ...Robert -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers