PGLZ memory problems fixed
Jan Wieck <janwieck@t-online.de>
From: JanWieck@t-online.de (Jan Wieck)
To: PostgreSQL HACKERS <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2000-07-20T14:23:01Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
FYI,
the huge memory allocation problem of the PGLZ compressor is
fixed. It uses a fixed, static history table, organized as a
double linked list, now.
No performance loss on small- to medium-sized attributes. But
a win on huge (multi-MB) attributes because of much lesser
memory consumption.
Jan
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