[ARROW-3877] [C++] Provide access to "maximum decompressed size" functions in compression libraries (if they exist)

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Later
• Component/s: C++
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/20463
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Wes McKinney
• Created: 25/Nov/18 21:54
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:30
• Resolved: 17/Feb/21 18:31

Description

As follow up to ARROW-3831, some compression libraries have a function to provide a hint for sizing the output buffer (if it is not known already) for one-shot decompression. This would be helpful for sizing allocations in such cases