Adriano dos Santos Fernandes wrote:

>Not always.
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>You don't know what the blob field will contain.
>It may be an already compressed file.
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>New features should not dictate bad performance for some type of normal
>operation.
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Could somebody explain why the invariable reaction of this project to a
new idea of "terrible, can't be done, there's a case that isn't
optimimal" rather than "hey, that's a cool idea. Let's see how we can
get it to work."

The most stupid of compression schemes has at most a trivial cost when
compressing the uncompressible. And if the compression scheme didn't,
we could, trivially.

So rather than reject every idea out of hand, why not use your brain to
see how it could work?