> As I see the things in developing world wide are going into very low
> level of quality. More and more "developers" on forums are talking
> about putting in blob fields almost everything (Word files, Huge
> texts, Huge XMLs, etc). These things are compressed very well. So if
> we have the option - "BLOB WITH ZLIB COMPRESSION" - these developers
> will be very happy. That will be hit to performance - but if developer
> wants it - let give it such thing.

The only thing that is missing is a BLOB filter that peforms such
compression shiped together with the server. As far as I understand,
rest of the stuff is already there.

However, I'm not sure if it makes sense to use zlib compression on the
server - its CPU has other things to do. Just simply compress stuff on
the client side, and job's done.

Roman