On Sat, Sep 11, 2021, 6:01 PM Andrey Borodin wrote:
>
> Hi hackers!
>
> There's a lot of compression discussions nowadays. And that's cool!
> Recently Naresh Chainani in private discussion shared with me the idea to
> compress temporary files on disk.
> And I was thrilled to find no evidence of
Hi,
On 9/11/21 2:31 PM, Andrey Borodin wrote:
> Hi hackers!
>
> There's a lot of compression discussions nowadays. And that's cool!
> Recently Naresh Chainani in private discussion shared with me the
> idea to compress temporary files on disk. And I was thrilled to find
> no evidence of implemen
On Sat, Sep 11, 2021 at 8:31 AM Andrey Borodin wrote:
> I've prototyped Random Access Compressed File for fun[0]. The code is very
> dirty proof-of-concept.
> I compress Buffile by one block at a time. There are directory pages to store
> information about the size of each compressed block. If a
On Sat, Sep 11, 2021 at 05:31:37PM +0500, Andrey Borodin wrote:
> How do you think: does it worth to pursue the idea? OLTP systems rarely rely
> on data spilled to disk.
> Are there any known good random access compressed file libs? So we could
> avoid reinventing the wheel.
> Maybe someone tried
