Hi!

On Jan 22, 2010, at 4:26 PM, Steven Roussey wrote:

> DB server do it. I had proposed years ago to Monty to have compressed
> columns and change the client-server API to recognize them such that
> the client lib would do the decompression. This would also mean less
> network traffic. And the server could do it if the client version was
> too old.

Slashdot's version of MySQL had this :)

When Monty copied over the feature he modified it in a number of ways, one of 
which was that this was no longer possible.

It is a great feature, but my patches for it are ancient, and long since lost.

Cheers,
        -Brian


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