Yes, but default should be AUTODETECT because many
developer are not guru or are lazy.

Slavek

>
> I totally agree. But I suspect that in most cases the
> database developer knows whether th data of a specific blob
> column can be compressed or not. So I see no reason why it
> shouldn't be up to the database developer to specify whether
> the BLOB data of a column should be compressed or not.
>
> Why use cock cycles (may that be many or few) detecting
> whether data can be compressed or not each time data is
> stored if the database developer can specify once and for all
> that it can't.
>