docs - gpfdist uncompreses data on the fly.
errors.</note>
<p>For readable external tables, if load files are compressed using <codeph>gzip</codeph> or
<codeph>bzip2</codeph> (have a <codeph>.gz</codeph> or <codeph>.bz2</codeph> file
- extension), <codeph>gpfdist</codeph> uncompresses the files before loading. For writable
- external tables, <codeph>gpfdist</codeph> compresses the data using <codeph>gzip</codeph> if
- the target file has a <codeph>.gz</codeph> extension.</p>
+ extension), <codeph>gpfdist</codeph> uncompresses the data while loading the data (on the
+ fly). For writable external tables, <codeph>gpfdist</codeph> compresses the data using
+ <codeph>gzip</codeph> if the target file has a <codeph>.gz</codeph> extension.</p>
<note type="note">Compression is not supported for readable and writeable external tables when
the <codeph>gpfdist</codeph> utility runs on Windows platforms.</note>
<p>When reading or writing data with the <codeph>gpfdist</codeph> or <codeph>gpfdists</codeph>
