On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 12:57, Stephen R. van den Berg <srb@cuci.nl> wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>>(1) Compress everything within reason by default, causing slower retrieval, do
>>not offer substr optimization. [<= 8.3]
>
>>(2) Compress only up to 1 MB, causing faster retrieval, supporting substr
>>optimization. [8.4devel]
>
>>I am personally completely puzzled by option number 2. Is there even a single
>>use case for that?
>
> I can't imagine one, and (in this thread at least) noone has demonstrated
> such; Tom hinted at one, but he didn't elaborate.
Well that check got removed today anyway see:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-committers/2009-01/msg00069.php
