> Here is the background: Anyone that is running a huge system like MARC
> that has millions of uncompressed blob records in huge tables, needs to be
> able to migrate, in real-time and without down-time, to compressed blobs.
> Therefore, we need a way to know if a given field is compressed or not
Hi!
On Feb 27, Lester Hightower wrote:
> To whom it may concern at Mysql AB:
>
> I see from the Mysql 4.1.1 CHANGELOG that new COMPRESS(), UNCOMPRESS(),
> and UNCOMPRESSED_LENGTH() functions were added. That is great news, and
> something I have been very interested in for a long time, as eviden
To whom it may concern at Mysql AB:
I see from the Mysql 4.1.1 CHANGELOG that new COMPRESS(), UNCOMPRESS(),
and UNCOMPRESSED_LENGTH() functions were added. That is great news, and
something I have been very interested in for a long time, as evidenced by
this mysql mailing list thread, dating back
