Re: [HACKERS] Custom compression methods

Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>

From: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
To: Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut@gmail.com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com>, Alexander Korotkov <a.korotkov@postgrespro.ru>, David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>, Ildus Kurbangaliev <i.kurbangaliev@gmail.com>, Dmitry Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2021-02-05T15:56:38Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
+                * If the called has passed an invalid slot then create a new slot.                                                                                                                                            
*caller

+        * Slot for storing the modified tuple, incase the target attribute's                                                                                                                                                  
*in case

Could you comment on the patch I sent on Jan 30 ?  I think it would be squished
into 0001.
> Subject: [PATCH v21 2/7] Add default_toast_compression GUC

Also, what about the idea to add HIDE_COMPRESSAM ?  Right now, your patch
changes a great many regression tests, and I doubt many people are going to try
to look closely to verify the differences, now, or when setting a non-default
compression method.

Also, I think we may want to make enable-lz4 the default *for testing
purposes*, now that the linux and BSD environments include that.

-- 
Justin



Commits

  1. docs: Update TOAST storage docs for configurable compression.

  2. Further tweaking of pg_dump's handling of default_toast_compression.

  3. Fix interaction of TOAST compression with expression indexes.

  4. Tidy up more loose ends related to configurable TOAST compression.

  5. Short-circuit slice requests that are for more than the object's size.

  6. Mostly-cosmetic adjustments of TOAST-related macros.

  7. Remove useless configure probe for <lz4/lz4.h>.

  8. Error on invalid TOAST compression in CREATE or ALTER TABLE.

  9. docs: Fix omissions related to configurable TOAST compression.

  10. More code cleanup for configurable TOAST compression.

  11. Bring configure support for LZ4 up to snuff.

  12. Make compression.sql regression test independent of default.

  13. Use valid compression method in brin_form_tuple

  14. Fix up pg_dump's handling of per-attribute compression options.

  15. Allow configurable LZ4 TOAST compression.

  16. Fix inconsistencies in the code

  17. Mostly-cosmetic improvements in memory chunk header alignment coding.

  18. Allow numeric to use a more compact, 2-byte header in many cases.