> Certainly, if you can't prototype a convincing performance win using > that algorithm, it's unlikely to be worth anyone's time to > look harder.
That should be easily possible with LZO. It would need to be the lib that we can optionally link to (--with-lzo), since the lib is GPL. lzo even allows for inplace decompression and overlapping compression. Andreas ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match