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Message Posted: Mon, 08 Dec 2003 @ 21:48:38 GMT
Subj: | | Re: alter table compression |
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From: | | Dieter Noeth |
Victor Sokovin wrote:
| Well, I did not say that the changes will work under all circumstances and on all releases. They just _might_ ... | |
You can't modify the compress option of an existing column in all releases up to 5.1 ;-)
| A few remarks on your examples. Last time I checked, compression did not apply to varchar columns at all; a column must be
fixed-length to qualify for compression. | |
It's still the same in V2R5, the only difference is the possibility to compress more than one value...
Dieter
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