Re: [HACKERS] Custom compression methods

On Fri, Dec 1, 2017 at 10:18 AM, Tomas Vondra
<tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> It has very little impact on this patch, as it has nothing to do with
> columnar storage. That is, each value is compressed independently.

I understand that this patch is not about columnar storage, but I
think the idea that we may want to operate on the compressed data
directly is not only applicable to that case.

> I agree with these thoughts in general, but I'm not quite sure what is
> your conclusion regarding the patch.

I have not reached one.  Sometimes I like to discuss problems before
deciding what I think.  :-)

It does seem to me that the patch may be aiming at a relatively narrow
target in a fairly large problem space, but I don't know whether to
label that as short-sightedness or prudent incrementalism.

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