Valentina 2.0. -- What is your 3 DREAM features?

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

on 1/31/04 7:39 PM, Robert Brenstein at rjb at rz.uni-potsdam.de wrote:

>>> -- built in options to compress large data upon storage and auto
>>>  decompress upon recall (choice of compression)
>> 
>> Mmm, this exists now -- ZIP compression for BLOBs.
> 
> Hmm, may be it exists but there is no mention of it in any of the
> docs I have, so I have no clue how to use it.
> 
> I'd like this to be simply a field attribute like with indexing or
> unique -- I just call Field_SetFlag() to make field zip-compressed.

It is exactly such!


> By BLOBs, do you mean BLOB fields or all BLOB-type fields (that is
> BLOB, TEXT, PICT)?

Yes. Compression was added mainly for TEXT fields.

There is no sense to use it for Picture field.

And Robert, you use HuperCard?
It do not support binary data..
This can explain why you did not see it.

In REVOLUTION present binary data.

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Best regards,
Ruslan Zasukhin      [ I feel the need...the need for speed ]
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