On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 12:57, Stephen R. van den Berg <s...@cuci.nl> wrote: > Peter Eisentraut wrote: >>(1) Compress everything within reason by default, causing slower retrieval, do >>not offer substr optimization. [<= 8.3] > >>(2) Compress only up to 1 MB, causing faster retrieval, supporting substr >>optimization. [8.4devel] > >>I am personally completely puzzled by option number 2. Is there even a single >>use case for that? > > I can't imagine one, and (in this thread at least) noone has demonstrated > such; Tom hinted at one, but he didn't elaborate.
Well that check got removed today anyway see: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-committers/2009-01/msg00069.php -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers