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

From Zeugswetter Andreas DCP SD
Subject Re: Compression and on-disk sorting
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In response to Compression and on-disk sorting  ("Jim C. Nasby" <jnasby@pervasive.com>)
Responses Re: Compression and on-disk sorting
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> Certainly, if you can't prototype a convincing performance win using
> that algorithm, it's unlikely to be worth anyone's time to
> look harder.

That should be easily possible with LZO. It would need to be the lib
that
we can optionally link to (--with-lzo), since the lib is GPL.

lzo even allows for inplace decompression and overlapping compression.

Andreas


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