Re: Partitioning and compressed tables

[Mikael Ronström]

Hi,

Aaron Dow wrote:
> Question: is it possible to compress individual
> partitions using myisampack (or similar)?
>

I would have loved to support this but unfortunately it
wasn't possible to solve it in a 5.1 timeframe. If we come
up with a simple solution for it this might change later
on but this is how it works currently.

Rgrds Mikael

> I have a large data warehouse that is currently
> stored in individual daily tables that are
> compressed after creation to save space. I would
> dearly love to start using partitions to simplify
> accessing the data, but do not have space to
> support many uncompressed partitions.