Re: Migrate 200 Million of rows

Tanel Poder wrote:
>
> > What I really like about lossless compressors is the fact that you can
> > compress a file, then compress it again and again and again until you
> > end up with a 1 KB file (roughly). This can be copied to a floppy and
> > your entire database cold backup sent to whoever you like. No need for
> > all that NFS stuff - just a few passes through the compressor program
> > does the trick.
>
> Is this a joke?
>
> Tanel.

Yes and no.

Yes, Norman is joking.

No, there have been products through the ages that have claimed 'infinite' compression, where any sequence of bits can be compressed to a smaller amount over and over...such products tend to make it to the marketing stage, but not the production stage :-)

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