Re: [HACKERS] generic LONG VARLENA

Tom Lane wrote:

> wieck(at)debis(dot)com (Jan Wieck) writes:
> > Nice idea, and should be technically easy since the
> > compressor itself is separated from the lztext type. OTOH the
> > user then will have no choice to prevent compression tries
> > for performance reasons.
> > So this feature again is something that IMHO should go into a
> > configurable option.
>
> Good point. You're right, there should be a per-datatype "don't
> bother to try to compress this type" flag. (Is per-datatype the
> right granularity?)

Per column!

Jan

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