Is data compressed when stored?

From: Howard Cole <howardnews(at)selestial(dot)com>
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Subject: Is data compressed when stored?
Date: 2009-10-29 11:03:48
Message-ID: 4AE97694.7030209@selestial.com
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Hi everyone,

Is data compressed when stored in a database table/field?

If not, is there an easy way (invisible to the database client) to
compress text and bytea data without actually using compressed disks?

Thanks.

Howard
www.selestial.com

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