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Re: multithreaded zstd backup compression for client and server

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>

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From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
To: Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <ilmari@ilmari.org>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Dipesh Pandit <dipesh.pandit@gmail.com>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>, "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2022-03-31T12:21:47Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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  1. Document BaseBackupSync and BaseBackupWrite wait events.

  2. Support long distance matching for zstd compression

  3. Fix possible NULL-pointer-deference in backup_compression.c.

  4. Allow parallel zstd compression when taking a base backup.

  5. Make PostgreSQL::Test::Cluster::run_log() return a useful value.

  6. Fix a few goofs in new backup compression code.

  7. Replace BASE_BACKUP COMPRESSION_LEVEL option with COMPRESSION_DETAIL.

  8. Add 'basebackup_to_shell' contrib module.

  9. Allow extensions to add new backup targets.

  10. Change HAVE_LIBLZ4 and HAVE_LIBZSTD tests to USE_LZ4 and USE_ZSTD.

  11. pg_basebackup: Clean up some bogus file extension tests.

  12. pg_basebackup: Avoid unclean failure with server-compression and -D -.

  13. Fix LZ4 tests for remaining buffer space.

  14. Add support for zstd base backup compression.

  15. pg_basebackup: Allow client-side LZ4 (de)compression.

  16. Add suport for server-side LZ4 base backup compression.

  17. Add min() and max() aggregates for xid8.

  18. Remove superfluous variable.

  19. pg_basebackup: Cleaner handling when compression is multiply specified.

  20. Allow server-side compression to be used with -Fp.

  21. pg_basebackup: Fix a couple of recently-introduced bugs.

  22. Tidy up a few cosmetic issues related to pg_basebackup.

  23. Server-side gzip compression.

  24. Unbreak pg_basebackup/t/010_pg_basebackup.pl on msys

  25. Suppress variable-set-but-not-used warning from clang 13.

  26. Extend the options of pg_basebackup to control compression

  27. Support base backup targets.

  28. Modify pg_basebackup to use a new COPY subprotocol for base backups.

  29. Document that tar archives are now properly terminated.

  30. Fix thinko in bbsink_throttle_manifest_contents.

  31. Have the server properly terminate tar archives.

  32. Minimal fix for unterminated tar archive problem.

  33. Introduce 'bbstreamer' abstraction to modularize pg_basebackup.

  34. Introduce 'bbsink' abstraction to modularize base backup code.

  35. Refactor basebackup.c's _tarWriteDir() function.

  36. Flexible options for CREATE_REPLICATION_SLOT.

  37. Flexible options for BASE_BACKUP.

On 3/30/22 08:00, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> This patch contains a trivial adjustment to
>> PostgreSQL::Test::Cluster::run_log to make it return a useful value
>> instead of not. I think that should be pulled out and committed
>> independently regardless of what happens to this patch overall, and
>> possibly back-patched.
> run_log() is far from the only such method in PostgreSQL::Test::Cluster.
> Here's a patch that gives the same treatment to all the methods that
> just pass through to the corresponding PostgreSQL::Test::Utils function.
>
> Also attached is a fix a typo in the _get_env doc comment that I noticed
> while auditing the return values.
>

None of these routines in Utils.pm returns a useful value (unlike
run_log()). Typically we don't return the value of Test::More routines.
So -1 on patch 1. I will fix the typo.


cheers


andrew


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