Jim Starkey wrote:

>BLOB COMPRESSION IS FOR PERFORMANCE! Get it? It's to make it run
>faster, not slower. It faster to decompress a page than to read another
>one. Sooner or later you have to understand that cpus are fast and
>disks are slow, and the way to go faster is to read fewer pages.
>
>

Not always.

You don't know what the blob field will contain.
It may be an already compressed file.

New features should not dictate bad performance for some type of normal
operation.


Adriano