Re: Unix compress equivalent

2009-05-11 Thread Olaf Stein
Thanks This is exactly what I needed Olaf On 5/11/09 7:15 AM, "Janek Bogucki" wrote: > Hi Olaf, > > If you only need to compress the column *while* loading it from the csv file > then use load data infile with a user variable to do the compression at load > time,. > > mysql> create table t(u

Re: Unix compress equivalent

2009-05-11 Thread Janek Bogucki
Hi Olaf, If you only need to compress the column *while* loading it from the csv file then use load data infile with a user variable to do the compression at load time,. mysql> create table t(uncompressed varchar(4000), compressed varbinary(1000)); Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.07 sec) mysql> \

Re: Unix compress equivalent

2009-05-10 Thread walter harms
hi Olaf, in unix you have small programms that do one thing and not more. What you want to archive is a compressed output files. the most easy way is: | gzip -c >outfile depending on your data replace gzip with zoo,lha,bzip2,compress,. re, wh Olaf Stein schrieb: > Or even better, can I

Re: Unix compress equivalent

2009-05-08 Thread Olaf Stein
Or even better, can I tell load data infile or somewhere in the table definition to compress whatever is written to the file? Thanks Olaf On 5/8/09 12:29 PM, "Olaf Stein" wrote: > Hi all > > What is the equivalent in unix (more specifically python) to the compress() > function. > > I am tryi

Unix compress equivalent

2009-05-08 Thread Olaf Stein
Hi all What is the equivalent in unix (more specifically python) to the compress() function. I am trying to make csv file for use with load data infile and am wondering how to compress the strings that I would usually compress with compress() in a regular sql statement. The field I am writing thi