"Tom Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Adds an early-failure path to the compressor as suggested by Jan: > if it's been unable to find even one compressible substring in the > first 1KB (parameterizable), assume we're looking at incompressible > input and give up. (There are various ways this could be done, but > this way seems to add the least overhead to the compressor's inner > loop.)
I'm not sure how to test the rest of it, but this bit seems testable. I fear this may be too conservative. Even nigh incompressible data will find a few backreferences. I'll try some tests and see. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com Ask me about EnterpriseDB's On-Demand Production Tuning ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
