On 10 December 2013 15:15, Merlin Moncure wrote:
> I doubt you'll ever see generally heap compressed data in the way
> you're thinking: postgres has a strong informal policy of not
> implementing features which are dubious and or excessively complicated
> with limited benefit, particularly if the
On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 1:18 AM, Thomas Munro wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have been wondering what the minimum useful heap table compression
> system would be for Postgres, in order to reduce disk footprint of
> large mostly static datasets. Do you think an approach similar to the
> static row-level compre
Hi
I have been wondering what the minimum useful heap table compression
system would be for Postgres, in order to reduce disk footprint of
large mostly static datasets. Do you think an approach similar to the
static row-level compression of DB2 could make sense? I imagine
something like this:
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