Hello All,
I'm writing today to inquire about finding the exact point in the source
where postgres writes to disk. I'm trying to implement some compression in
postgres. The idea is to compress the data right when its written to disk,
to reduce the amount of data written to disk, reducing the
Will,
* Will Childs-Klein (willc...@gmail.com) wrote:
I'm writing today to inquire about finding the exact point in the source
where postgres writes to disk. I'm trying to implement some compression in
postgres.
PostgreSQL already does compression in most cases where you'd want it
done..
On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 10:17 AM, Will Childs-Klein willc...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello All,
I'm writing today to inquire about finding the exact point in the source
where postgres writes to disk. I'm trying to implement some compression in
postgres. The idea is to compress the data right when its
I would expect the strategy you have in mind to be more useful to apply at
the filesystem level, so that it's not in Postgres altogether. (Ala
Stacker, remember DR-DOS?)
But, to speak arguable heresy, the demerits of this sort of thing are
described nicely in Another Database's Documentation:
On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 11:17 AM, Christopher Browne cbbro...@gmail.com wrote:
I would expect the strategy you have in mind to be more useful to apply at
the filesystem level, so that it's not in Postgres altogether. (Ala
Stacker, remember DR-DOS?)
But, to speak arguable heresy, the
