Re: Compression of text columns

From: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Stef <svb(at)ucs(dot)co(dot)za>
Cc: Tino Wildenhain <tino(at)wildenhain(dot)de>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Compression of text columns
Date: 2005-10-11 08:02:57
Message-ID: 1129017777.8300.354.camel@localhost.localdomain
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On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 14:57 +0200, Stef wrote:
> Is there any way to achieve better compression?

You can use XML schema aware compression techniques, but PostgreSQL
doesn't know about those. You have to do it yourself, or translate the
XML into an infoset-preserving form that will still allow XPath and
friends.

Best Regards, Simon Riggs

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