I never had much reason to use table compression, so I largely ignored the topic in MySQL. I knew that MySQL had table compression since 5.1, but I also knew the implementation was horribly complicated and double stored all data. There is also page compression, a feature introduced with 5.7, which replaces table compression and works much better.
is available in MySQL 5.1 and newer. It is used by setting an
InnoDB table up with ROW_FORMAT=COMPRESSED
KEY_BLOCK_SIZE=8 or similar, for even smaller key block
sizes. A lot of status tables in
INFORMATION_SCHEMA.%CMP% are available to monitor
it.
Table compression creates smaller pages (in the size you specify with …
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