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# SYS\_ANALYZE\_COMPRESSION\_HISTORY
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Records details for compression analysis operations during COPY or ANALYZE COMPRESSION commands.

SYS\_ANALYZE\_COMPRESSION\_HISTORY is visible to all users. Superusers can see all rows; regular users can see only their own data. For more information, see [Visibility of data in system tables and views](cm_chap_system-tables.md#c_visibility-of-data).

## Table columns
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| Column name  | Data type  | Description  | 
| --- | --- | --- | 
| user\_id | integer | The ID of the user who generated the entry. | 
| start\_time | timestamp | The time when the compression analysis operation started. | 
| transaction\_id | bigint | The transaction ID of the compression analysis operation. | 
| table\_id | integer | The table ID of the table that was analyzed. | 
| table\_name | character(128) | The name of the table that was analyzed. | 
| column\_position | 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) | [See the AWS documentation website for more details](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift/latest/dg/r_SYS_ANALYZE_COMPRESSION_HISTORY.html)  | 

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

```
select transaction_id, table_id, btrim(table_name) as table_name, column_position, old_encoding, new_encoding, mode 
from sys_analyze_compression_history
where transaction_id = (select transaction_id from sys_query_history where query_id = pg_last_copy_id()) order by column_position;
                
 transaction_id  |  table_id   | table_name | column_position |  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)
```