| From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
|---|---|
| To: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Douglas McNaught <doug(at)mcnaught(dot)org>, "Stephen R(dot) van den Berg" <srb(at)cuci(dot)nl>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, lar(at)quicklz(dot)com, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: QuickLZ compression algorithm (Re: Inclusion in the PostgreSQL backend for toasting rows) |
| Date: | 2009-01-05 21:02:16 |
| Message-ID: | 1231189336.26750.11.camel@jd-laptop.pragmaticzealot.org |
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On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 13:04 -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
> > Are
> > we willing to be dropped from Debian and possibly Red Hat if this is
> > the case?
> Regardless of whether we do that or not, no one has offered any
> justification of the arbitrary decision not to compress columns >1MB,
> and at least one person (Peter) has suggested that it is exactly
> backwards. I think he's right, and this part should be backed out.
> That will leave us back in the sensible place where people who want
> compression can get it (which is currently false) and people who don't
> want it can get rid of it (which has always been true). If there is a
> demand for alternative compression algorithms, then someone can submit
> a patch for that for 8.5.
>
> ...Robert
+1
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drake
>
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