Re: [HACKERS] Custom compression methods

Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>

From: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut@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>, Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2021-03-11T18:25:26Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 08:28:58PM -0600, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> This includes a patch to use pkgconfig, in an attempt to build on mac, which
> currently fails like:
> 
> https://cirrus-ci.com/task/5993712963551232?command=build#L126
> checking for LZ4_compress in -llz4... no
> configure: error: library 'lz4' is required for LZ4 support

This includes a 2nd attempt to use pkg-config to build on mac.

If this doesn't work, we should ask for help from a mac user who wants to take
on a hopefully-quick project.

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.