STL_ANALYZE_COMPRESSION

Records details for compression analysis operations during COPY or ANALYZE COMPRESSION commands.

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Table columns

Column name	Data type	Description
userid	integer	The ID of the user who generated the entry.
start_time	timestamp	The time when the compression analysis operation started.
xid	bigint	The transaction ID of the compression analysis operation.
tbl	integer	The table ID of the table that was analyzed.
tablename	character(128)	The name of the table that was analyzed.
col	integer	The index of the column in the table that was analyzed to determine the compression encoding.
old_encoding	character(15)	The encoding type before compression analysis.
new_encoding	character(15)	The encoding type after compression analysis.
mode	character(14)	The possible values are: PRESET Specifies that the new_encoding is determined by the Amazon Redshift COPY command based on the column data type. No data is sampled. ON Specifies that the new_encoding is determined by the Amazon Redshift COPY command based on an analysis of sample data. ANALYZE ONLY Specifies that the new_encoding is determined by the Amazon Redshift ANALYZE COMPRESSION command based on an analysis of sample data. However, the encoding type of the analyzed column is not changed.

Sample queries

The following example inspects the details of compression analysis on the lineitem table by the last COPY command run in the same session.

select xid, tbl, btrim(tablename) as tablename, col, old_encoding, new_encoding, mode 
from stl_analyze_compression 
where xid = (select xid from stl_query where query = pg_last_copy_id()) order by col;
                
 xid  |  tbl   | tablename | col |  old_encoding   |  new_encoding   |      mode
======+========+===========+=====+=================+=================+=============
 8196 | 248126 | lineitem  |   0 | mostly32        | mostly32        | ON
 8196 | 248126 | lineitem  |   1 | mostly32        | lzo             | ON
 8196 | 248126 | lineitem  |   2 | lzo             | delta32k        | ON
 8196 | 248126 | lineitem  |   3 | delta           | delta           | ON
 8196 | 248126 | lineitem  |   4 | bytedict        | bytedict        | ON
 8196 | 248126 | lineitem  |   5 | mostly32        | mostly32        | ON
 8196 | 248126 | lineitem  |   6 | delta           | delta           | ON
 8196 | 248126 | lineitem  |   7 | delta           | delta           | ON
 8196 | 248126 | lineitem  |   8 | lzo             | zstd            | ON
 8196 | 248126 | lineitem  |   9 | runlength       | zstd            | ON
 8196 | 248126 | lineitem  |  10 | delta           | lzo             | ON
 8196 | 248126 | lineitem  |  11 | delta           | delta           | ON
 8196 | 248126 | lineitem  |  12 | delta           | delta           | ON
 8196 | 248126 | lineitem  |  13 | bytedict        | zstd            | ON
 8196 | 248126 | lineitem  |  14 | bytedict        | zstd            | ON
 8196 | 248126 | lineitem  |  15 | text255         | zstd            | ON
(16 rows)