Re: [Firebird-devel] Compress communication protocol

[= m. Th = <th...@va...>]

Alex Peshkov wrote:
>> A nice thing for the server side for these usage cases is to have 
>> (something equivalent of) BLOB sub-types which provides compression (for 
>> text and other data which is compressible).
>>     
>
> This feature can be easily added using BLOB filters. And performing 
> search using compressed data and decompression on the fly in most cases 
> will perform faster then without compression - due to less disk reads.
Exactly this was my idea. You could also store your system (RDB$) BLOBs 
(BLR, views/sp source aso.) in such format.

my 2c,

m. th.