Re: [HACKERS] COMPRESS VALUES feature request

2017-05-09 Thread Marko Tiikkaja
On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 8:18 PM, Erez Segal wrote: > In the IRC channel - johto suggested an implementation: > > if you want to get really fancy you could have two columns where > only one of set; one would be the value (if reasonably unique) and the > other the id (if not) > I only suggested ho

[HACKERS] COMPRESS VALUES feature request

2017-05-09 Thread Erez Segal
Hi, Following a discussion in the IRC channel, I'd like to suggest a feature request to the ToDo WIKI page . The use case is having a column with strings/floats, where some values are very common and can be compressed, while many other values are unique, mak