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Re: pgsql: Add suport for server-side LZ4 base backup compression.

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

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From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2022-02-12T22:09:13Z
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On 2022-02-12 07:24:46 -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
> You may be right, but I'm not entirely convinced. $ENV{'LZ4'} here is
> being set by make, and make is setting it to whatever configure found.
> If configure found a version of the lz4 program that doesn't actually
> work, isn't that configure's fault, or the system administrator's
> fault, rather than this test's fault?

I don't think there's an actual configure check for the lz4 binary? Looks like
a static assignment in src/Makefile.global.in to me.

Commits

  1. Remove command checks in tests of pg_basebackup and pg_receivewal

  2. Add ./configure check for "lz4" command

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