Re: [chromium-dev] SQLite compression in history database.

2009-11-24 Thread Evan Martin
Due to bugs we've seen users with 10gb history files, which may contribute to complaints. http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=24947 Even if compression ends up being pretty slow, you could imagine using it for our archived history (history more than a month old). On Tue, Nov 24,

Re: [chromium-dev] SQLite compression in history database.

2009-11-24 Thread Nico Weber
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Elliot Glaysher (Chromium) wrote: > I'm all for it. I vaguely remember people complaining about the size > of our history files, and most of my history files are over 50M. Part of the reason for this are bugs like http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?i

Re: [chromium-dev] SQLite compression in history database.

2009-11-24 Thread Elliot Glaysher (Chromium)
I'm all for it. I vaguely remember people complaining about the size of our history files, and most of my history files are over 50M. -- Elliot On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 10:13 AM, Scott Hess wrote: > Long ago when developing fts1, I experimented with using zlib > compression as part of the impleme

[chromium-dev] SQLite compression in history database.

2009-11-24 Thread Scott Hess
Long ago when developing fts1, I experimented with using zlib compression as part of the implementation.  It fell by the wayside because it really didn't provide enough performance improvement (I needed an order of magnitude, it didn't provide it), and because of licensing issues (fts1/2/3 are part