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naasking on Dec 12, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: What if an SQL statement returned a database?

Isn't the repeated information trivially compressible using a suitable run-length encoding? As long as the result set is ordered properly of course.

tlarkworthy on Dec 14, 2023 [–]

Yes it should be compressible trivially

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