Re: Compression and on-disk sorting - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Compression and on-disk sorting
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Msg-id 28225.1148043811@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Compression and on-disk sorting  (Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org>)
Responses Re: Compression and on-disk sorting  (Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org>)
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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> writes:
> I'm seeing 250,000 blocks being cut down to 9,500 blocks. That's almost
> unbeleiveable. What's in the table?

Yeah, I'd tend to question the test data being used.  gzip does not do
that well on typical text (especially not at the lower settings we'd
likely want to use).
        regards, tom lane


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