On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 9:15 AM, Michael Paquier
<michael.paquier@gmail.com> wrote:
> I just meant that the scratch buffers used to store temporarily the
> compressed and uncompressed data should be palloc'd all the time, even
> if the switch is off.
If they're fixed size, you can just put them on the heap as static globals.
static char space_for_stuff[65536];
Or whatever you need.
I don't think that's a cost worth caring about.
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