On 15/04/2011 7:01 AM, Yang Zhang wrote:
> Is there any effort to add compression into PG, a la MySQL's
> row_format=compressed or HBase's LZO block compression?
There's no row compression, but as mentioned by others there is
out-of-line compression of large values using TOAST.
Row compression would be interesting, but I can't imagine it not having
been investigated already.
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