Bug #27646 Compressed InnoDB tablespaces
Submitted: 4 Apr 2007 12:57 Modified: 27 Jul 2008 22:51
Reporter: Marko Mäkelä Email Updates:
Status: Closed Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Server: InnoDB storage engine Severity:S4 (Feature request)
Version:5.1 OS:Any
Assigned to: Marko Mäkelä CPU Architecture:Any
Tags: InnoDB plugin

[4 Apr 2007 12:57] Marko Mäkelä 
Description:
It would be nice to have compressed tablespaces in InnoDB.

How to repeat:
Run a disk-bound workload and wonder if it were possible to trade central memory for processor usage.

Suggested fix:
Implement zlib compression of ROW_FORMAT=COMPACT tables when innodb_file_per_table=1.
[19 Jun 2007 13:19] Marko Mäkelä 
Bug #29195 has also been fixed in this source tree.
[3 Dec 2007 13:24] Marko Mäkelä 
Bug #32915 is probably also fixed in this source tree.
[3 Feb 2008 20:38] Marko Mäkelä 
Bug #25945 is also fixed in this source tree.
[27 Jul 2008 22:51] Ken Jacobs 
Thank you for your bug report. This issue has already been addressed in the latest released version of the InnoDB Plugin, which you can download at http://www.innodb.com.