"Jim C. Nasby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Actually, I guess the amount of memory used for zlib's lookback buffer > (or whatever they call it) could be pretty substantial, and I'm not sure > if there would be a way to combine that across all tapes.
But there's only one active write tape at a time. My recollection of zlib is that compression is memory-hungry but decompression not so much, so it seems like this shouldn't be a huge deal. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match