Re: Compressed binary field

From: "Kevin Grittner" <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>
To: "Edson Richter" <edsonrichter(at)hotmail(dot)com>, <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Compressed binary field
Date: 2012-09-10 22:06:13
Message-ID: 504E1E05020000250004A157@gw.wicourts.gov
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Edson Richter <edsonrichter(at)hotmail(dot)com> wrote:

> this automatic compression applies to bytea fields?

Yes, but keep in mind that anything which is already compressed or
encrypted will probably not compress much if at all. Many of the
binary objects you might want to store in the database probably
already use compression internally.

-Kevin

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