MySQL Bugs: #39535: support other compression algorithms than zlib

Bug #39535	support other compression algorithms than zlib
Submitted:	19 Sep 2008 12:30	Modified:	29 Sep 2009 10:18
Reporter:	Mathias Walter	Email Updates:
Status:	Verified	Impact on me:	None
Category:	MySQL Server: Archive storage engine	Severity:	S4 (Feature request)
Version:	5.1	OS:	Any
Assigned to:		CPU Architecture:	Any
Tags:	archive engine, compression

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Description:
It would be great, if other compression algorithms than LZ77 (i. e. BZIP2 or LZMA) would be supported.

There could be an option to choose the compression method and the compression level.

How to repeat:
Its a feature request, not a bug.

Many thanks for a reasonable feature request.

From testing gzip (LZ77) is simply too slow - newer algorithms like
lz4 (http://code.google.com/p/lz4/) which trades compression ratio for
speed seems like good alternative.