Subject Re: [Firebird-Architect] Compression
Author Thomas Steinmaurer
> 27.09.2011 10:05, Thomas Steinmaurer wrote:
>> I don't know if this has been disccused in the past, but is there
>> anything on the plan for supporting compression at page/table/record-level?
>
> Records are already compressed as delta + RLE. Page level compression is pointless
> because page of variable size is a headache.

Still fixed page size on disk with compressed data.

What is "table level" compression I have no idea.

Compression of a particular table instead of the entire database/pages.


Regards,
Thomas