Svend Meyland Nicolaisen wrote:

>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.
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>
>

I think we had pretty much agreed that someone who wanted to do blob
seeks could request that blobs be stored non-compressed. It isn't much
of stretch to let people specify the same option for other purposes.

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