Re: [PERFORM] Compression of text columns

2005-10-11 Thread Simon Riggs
On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 14:57 +0200, Stef wrote: Is there any way to achieve better compression? You can use XML schema aware compression techniques, but PostgreSQL doesn't know about those. You have to do it yourself, or translate the XML into an infoset-preserving form that will still allow

Re: [PERFORM] Compression of text columns

2005-10-10 Thread Stef
Tino Wildenhain mentioned : = Well, text columns are automatically compressed via the toast mechanism. = This is handled transparently for you. OK, I misread the documentation, and I forgot to mention that I'm using postgres 7.3 and 8.0 It's actually the EXTERNAL storage type that is larger, not