On 2.5.2010 16:48, pasman pasmański wrote:
> Hello.
> I'm install postgresql 8.4.3 on WinXPsp3.
> Because of small disk i create tablespace
> pointing to commpressed folder and move
> some tables to it.
> Compression is good: 10GB to 3-4GB
> speed acceptable (small activity,10 users)
>
> But is this safe ?
Microsoft "guarantees" your safety here, there should be no difference
in behaviour.
Of course, memory and other resource requirements are still dependent on
the uncompressed size. Your performance will probably be less than
without compression.
