On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 13:04 -0500, Robert Haas wrote: > > Are > > we willing to be dropped from Debian and possibly Red Hat if this is > > the case?
> Regardless of whether we do that or not, no one has offered any > justification of the arbitrary decision not to compress columns >1MB, > and at least one person (Peter) has suggested that it is exactly > backwards. I think he's right, and this part should be backed out. > That will leave us back in the sensible place where people who want > compression can get it (which is currently false) and people who don't > want it can get rid of it (which has always been true). If there is a > demand for alternative compression algorithms, then someone can submit > a patch for that for 8.5. > > ...Robert +1 Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake > -- PostgreSQL Consulting, Development, Support, Training 503-667-4564 - http://www.commandprompt.com/ The PostgreSQL Company, serving since 1997 -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
