> On Nov 20, 2017, at 18:29, Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
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>> What about instead of dropping column we leave data uncompressed?
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> That requires you to go through the data and rewrite the whole table.
> And I'm not aware of a DROP command doing that, instead they just drop
> the dependent objects (e.g. DROP TYPE, ...). So per PLOS the DROP
> COMPRESSION METHOD command should do that too.
Well, there is no much you can do with DROP TYPE. But i'd argue that compression
is different. We do not drop data in case of DROP STATISTICS or DROP INDEX.
At least there should be a way to easily alter compression method then.