Re: [HACKERS] page compression

2011-01-03 Thread Robert Haas
On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 4:02 AM, Jim Nasby wrote: > FWIW, last time I looked at how Oracle handled compression, it would only > compress existing data. As soon as you modified a row, it ended up > un-compressed, presumably in a different page that was also un-compressed. IIUC, InnoDB basically c

Re: [HACKERS] page compression

2011-01-03 Thread Jim Nasby
On Jan 2, 2011, at 5:36 PM, Simon Riggs wrote: > On Tue, 2010-12-28 at 09:10 -0600, Andy Colson wrote: > >> I know its been discussed before, and one big problem is license and >> patent problems. > > Would like to see a design for that. There's a few different ways we > might want to do that, a

Re: [HACKERS] page compression

2011-01-02 Thread Simon Riggs
On Tue, 2010-12-28 at 09:10 -0600, Andy Colson wrote: > I know its been discussed before, and one big problem is license and > patent problems. Would like to see a design for that. There's a few different ways we might want to do that, and I'm interested to see if its possible to get compressed

Re: [HACKERS] page compression

2010-12-28 Thread Robert Haas
On Dec 28, 2010, at 10:33 AM, Joachim Wieland wrote: > On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Andy Colson wrote: >> I know its been discussed before, and one big problem is license and patent >> problems. >> >> Would this project be a problem: >> >> http://oldhome.schmorp.de/marc/liblzf.html > > It

Re: [HACKERS] page compression

2010-12-28 Thread Joachim Wieland
On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Andy Colson wrote: > I know its been discussed before, and one big problem is license and patent > problems. > > Would this project be a problem: > > http://oldhome.schmorp.de/marc/liblzf.html It looks like even liblzf is not going to be accepted. I have proposed

[HACKERS] page compression

2010-12-28 Thread Andy Colson
I know its been discussed before, and one big problem is license and patent problems. Would this project be a problem: http://oldhome.schmorp.de/marc/liblzf.html -Andy -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postg