On Wed, 7 Apr 2010 09:16:59 +0200 Eric Bollengier <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > On Wed, 7 Apr 2010 08:20:46 +1000 > "James > > > Won't that make for a really huge catalog? > > > > While each backup might have up to 500KB of XML metadata, it is just > > plain text and XML text at that so it compresses remarkably well - down > > to a 25KB .zip file (or a 15KB .7z file). > > In PostgreSQL, toast objects (like blob) larger than 1024bytes are compressed > by the engine in toast area. (MySQL should do the same thing)
MySQL can compress fields, but you need to modify sql queries to add COMPRESS() and UNCOMPRESS() calls. Not so nice. Bye ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Bacula-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel
