From 462f13c8de89f7ef66cf64254af39e82ac11e6ad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Rea Rustagi <85902999+rustagir@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2024 10:17:27 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] DOCS-15103: type 7 (compressed column) (#84)
* fix formatting in spec file
* DOCS-15103: add details about column type 7
* HE fix
(cherry picked from commit 38dfc47e09e1602c0fe22262eac4f0125608e0b8)
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spec.html | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/spec.html b/spec.html
index 7c235c0..1178a02 100644
--- a/spec.html
+++ b/spec.html
@@ -343,6 +343,10 @@
Notes
Max key - Special type which compares higher than all other possible BSON element values.
Generic binary subtype - This is the most commonly used binary subtype and should be the 'default' for drivers
and tools.
+ Compressed BSON Column - Compact storage of BSON data. This data
+ type uses delta and delta-of-delta compression and
+ run-length-encoding for efficient element storage. Also has an
+ encoding for sparse arrays containing missing values.
The BSON "binary" or "BinData" datatype is used to represent
arrays of bytes. It is somewhat analogous to the Java notion of a
ByteArray. BSON binary values have a subtype. This is used to