Add support for merging compressed chunks #7669
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Compressed chunks can be merged by applying the same copy+heap swap technique to the internal compressed chunks as applied to non-compressed chunks. However, it is necessary to consider cases when some chunks are compressed and some are not.
The way this is handled is to pick the first compressed chunk found among the input chunks, and then use that as the "result" chunk. In the next step all the chunks' non-compressed heaps are merged followed by all the "internal" compressed heaps. In the last step, the result chunk has its non-compressed and compressed heaps swapped with the merged ones, respectively.
In all other regards, the merging works the same as before when merging non-compressed chunks.