Re: Compressing temporary files

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Andrey Borodin <x4mmm(at)yandex-team(dot)ru>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, "Chainani, Naresh" <nareshkc(at)amazon(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Compressing temporary files
Date: 2021-10-06 14:24:47
Message-ID: 20211006142447.GG24555@momjian.us
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On Sat, Sep 11, 2021 at 05:31:37PM +0500, Andrey Borodin wrote:
> How do you think: does it worth to pursue the idea? OLTP systems rarely rely on data spilled to disk.
> Are there any known good random access compressed file libs? So we could avoid reinventing the wheel.
> Maybe someone tried this approach before?

Why are temporary tables more useful for compression that other database
files?

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