[PHP] compress data before inserting into mysql record?

Hey all, I had a small question concerning how MySQL stores text and longtext fields. Long story short, I have to store a large amount of textual data, and was wondering if I should compress said data and then store it in the db, or does MySQL already concern itself with compression (which would

Re: [PHP] compress data before inserting into mysql record?

Christian Calloway wrote: I had a small question concerning how MySQL stores text and longtext fields. Long story short, I have to store a large amount of textual data, and was wondering if I should compress said data and then store it in the db, or does MySQL already concern itself with