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 4483.1148076926@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Compression and on-disk sorting  ("Jim C. Nasby" <jnasby@pervasive.com>)
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"Jim C. Nasby" <jnasby@pervasive.com> writes:
> True random data wouldn't be such a great test either; what would
> probably be best is a set of random words, since in real life you're
> unlikely to have truely random data.

True random data would provide worst-case compression behavior, so
we'd want to try that to find out what the downside is; but we shouldn't
consider it to be the design center.
        regards, tom lane


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