[Xapian-discuss] Xapian 1.0.0 released!

[Olly Betts]

On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 04:48:43PM -0400, Jarrod Roberson wrote:
> >Flint supports using zlib to compress tags in the record and termlist
> >trees, and is now the default backend. The documentation has also been
> >improved.
> 
> Is this zlib compression turned on by default?

It's on by default for the two tables mentioned.

We don't try to compress the other three tables because experiments gave
smaller savings there (I think the postlist gave the next best savings
but it's the table we update most so we'd have to decompress and
recompress a lot).

Cheers,
    Olly