Hi John,
On Mar 30, 2011, at 6:49 AM, Biddiscombe, John A. wrote:
> Quincey,
>
> I think it's an interesting idea - poke around and send me any
> questions you have (off list, if you'd like).
>
> One thing I didn’t think about yet (and I haven’t started my poking around
> yet) – is this.
>
> If you enable compression using chunked data, is each chunk a completely
> independent compressed dataset, or do the compression filters assume that all
> chunks are somehow related. I understand that gzip for example stores tables
> of lookup bit sequences – would these tables be per chunk, or shared by all?
>
> If per chunk, then I’m happy, if global, then I have a problem.
They are per chunk (you can be happy. :-).
Quincey
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