Align the data block sizes of pg_dump's various compression modes.
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Align the data block sizes of pg_dump's various compression modes. After commit fe8192a95, compress_zstd.c tends to produce data block sizes around 128K, and we don't really have any control over that unless we want to overrule ZSTD_CStreamOutSize(). Which seems like a bad idea. But let's try to align the other compression modes to produce block sizes roughly comparable to that, so that pg_restore's skip-data performance isn't enormously different for different modes. gzip compression can be brought in line simply by setting DEFAULT_IO_BUFFER_SIZE = 128K, which this patch does. That increases some unrelated buffer sizes, but none of them seem problematic for modern platforms. lz4's idea of appropriate block size is highly nonlinear: if we just increase DEFAULT_IO_BUFFER_SIZE then the output blocks end up around 200K. I found that adjusting the slop factor in LZ4State_compression_init was a not-too-ugly way of bringing that number roughly into line. With compress = none you get data blocks the same sizes as the table rows, which seems potentially problematic for narrow tables. Introduce a layer of buffering to make that case match the others. Comments in compress_io.h and 002_pg_dump.pl suggest that if we increase DEFAULT_IO_BUFFER_SIZE then we need to increase the amount of data fed through the tests in order to improve coverage. I've not done that here, leaving it for a separate patch. Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3515357.1760128017@sss.pgh.pa.us
Files
| Path | Change | +/− |
|---|---|---|
| src/bin/pg_dump/compress_io.h | modified | +2 −2 |
| src/bin/pg_dump/compress_lz4.c | modified | +7 −2 |
| src/bin/pg_dump/compress_none.c | modified | +62 −2 |
| src/tools/pgindent/typedefs.list | modified | +1 −0 |
Discussion
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