From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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To: | Brian Hurt <bhurt(at)janestcapital(dot)com> |
Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Compressing table images |
Date: | 2006-05-11 20:46:58 |
Message-ID: | 4463A2C2.70807@commandprompt.com |
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Brian Hurt wrote:
> My apologies if this subject has already been hashed to death, or if
> this is the wrong list, but I was wondering if people had seen this paper:
> http://www.cwi.nl/htbin/ins1/publications?request=intabstract&key=ZuHeNeBo:ICDE:06
>
>
> Basically it describes a compression algorithm for tables of a
> database. The huge advantage of doing this is that it reduced the disk
> traffic by (approximately) a factor of four- at the cost of more CPU
> utilization.
> Any thoughts or comments?
I don't know if that is the algorithm we use but PostgreSQL will
compress its data within the table.
Joshua D. Drake
>
> Brian
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