Re: Compressing table images

Brian Hurt wrote:
> My apologies if this subject has already been hashed to death, or if 
> this is the wrong list, but I was wondering if people had seen this paper:
> http://www.cwi.nl/htbin/ins1/publications?request=intabstract&key=ZuHeNeBo:ICDE:06 
> 
> 
> Basically it describes a compression algorithm for tables of a 
> database.  The huge advantage of  doing this is that it reduced the disk 
> traffic by (approximately) a factor of four- at the cost of more CPU 
> utilization.
> Any thoughts or comments?

I don't know if that is the algorithm we use but PostgreSQL will 
compress its data within the table.

Joshua D. Drake


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