On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 9:15 AM, Michael Paquier <michael.paqu...@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. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers