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[Jan Křístek <jkresa@xxxxxxxxx>]

We don't use read-only compressed MyISAM tables, but I found out, that by
using PACK_KEYS I can save a significant amount of disk space. With some
small data, the index size can be the same as the data file size, with
PACK_KEYS we saved about 4/5 of the index volume (if I am right).

On Thu, 5 Aug 2021 at 11:05, Gordan Bobic <gordan.bobic@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> InnoDB is faster even on a read-only workload now and has been for over a
> decade.
> One of very, very few cases for use of MyISAM is if you use compressed
> read-only MyISAM tables.
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