Re: [HACKERS] LZTEXT for rule plan stings

At 12:15 PM 2/26/00 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:

>and (except for not using any excess whitespace) that is exactly what
>goes into a rule action string.
>
>As you can see, this is very amenable to compression, especially
>when you have a lot of columns in a view.
>
>Someday we might think about using a more compact representation for
>stored rules, but there are advantages to using a format that's fairly
>easy for a human to examine.

Oh, now I understand, I didn't realize the tree was being stored in
human-readable form as a string, but thought it was being parsed into
a binary form. That's why I began having doubts that I might've triggered
unecessary work on Jan's part regarding lztext. Yes, since it's
stored as a text string lztext should help a LOT.

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