Re: [REVIEW] Re: Compression of full-page-writes

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: "ktm(at)rice(dot)edu" <ktm(at)rice(dot)edu>
Cc: Arthur Silva <arthurprs(at)gmail(dot)com>, Rahila Syed <rahilasyed90(at)gmail(dot)com>, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>, Rahila Syed <rahilasyed(dot)90(at)gmail(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [REVIEW] Re: Compression of full-page-writes
Date: 2014-09-02 13:39:35
Message-ID: 20140902133935.GA5805@awork2.anarazel.de
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On 2014-09-02 08:37:42 -0500, ktm(at)rice(dot)edu wrote:
> I agree completely. For day-to-day use we should use LZ4-default. For read-only
> tables, it might be nice to "archive" them with LZ4-HC for the higher compression
> would increase read speed and reduce storage space needs. I believe that LZ4-HC
> is only slower to compress and the decompression is unaffected.

This is about the write ahead log, not relations

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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