Re: [HACKERS] generic LONG VARLENA - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From wieck@debis.com (Jan Wieck)
Subject Re: [HACKERS] generic LONG VARLENA
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Msg-id m11xM8h-0003kGC@orion.SAPserv.Hamburg.dsh.de
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] generic LONG VARLENA  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:

> wieck@debis.com (Jan Wieck) writes:
> >     Nice   idea,   and  should  be  technically  easy  since  the
> >     compressor itself is separated from the lztext type. OTOH the
> >     user  then  will  have no choice to prevent compression tries
> >     for performance reasons.
> >     So this feature again is something that IMHO should go into a
> >     configurable option.
>
> Good point.  You're right, there should be a per-datatype "don't
> bother to try to compress this type" flag.  (Is per-datatype the
> right granularity?)

    Per column!


Jan

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