On Fri, Dec 1, 2017 at 10:18 AM, Tomas Vondra <tomas.von...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote: > It has very little impact on this patch, as it has nothing to do with > columnar storage. That is, each value is compressed independently.
I understand that this patch is not about columnar storage, but I think the idea that we may want to operate on the compressed data directly is not only applicable to that case. > I agree with these thoughts in general, but I'm not quite sure what is > your conclusion regarding the patch. I have not reached one. Sometimes I like to discuss problems before deciding what I think. :-) It does seem to me that the patch may be aiming at a relatively narrow target in a fairly large problem space, but I don't know whether to label that as short-sightedness or prudent incrementalism. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
