On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 7:56 AM, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> 2009/11/1 Shaul Dar <shauldar(at)gmail(dot)com>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have several long text fields in my DB that I would love to compress
>> (descriptions, URLs etc). Can you tell me what options exists in PG
>> (+pointers please), typical effect on space and run time?
>
> Hello
>
> You can do nothing. PostgreSQL compresses data automatically
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/interactive/storage-toast.html
Well you can pick a strategy. But yeah, there's not much for the
average user to do really.