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Re: Add LZ4 compression in pg_dump

Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>

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From: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
To: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: gkokolatos@pm.me, Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>, shiy.fnst@fujitsu.com, pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org, Rachel Heaton <rachelmheaton@gmail.com>
Date: 2023-03-02T17:18:24Z
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On Wed, Mar 01, 2023 at 05:20:05PM +0100, Tomas Vondra wrote:
> On 2/25/23 15:05, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 24, 2023 at 11:02:14PM -0600, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> >> I have some fixes (attached) and questions while polishing the patch for
> >> zstd compression.  The fixes are small and could be integrated with the
> >> patch for zstd, but could be applied independently.
> > 
> > One more - WriteDataToArchiveGzip() says:
> > 
> > +       if (cs->compression_spec.level == 0)
> > +           pg_fatal("requested to compress the archive yet no level was specified");
> > 
> > That was added at e9960732a.  
> > 
> > But if you specify gzip:0, the compression level is already enforced by
> > validate_compress_specification(), before hitting gzip.c:
> > 
> > | pg_dump: error: invalid compression specification: compression algorithm "gzip" expects a compression level between 1 and 9 (default at -1)
> > 
> > 5e73a6048 intended that to work as before, and you *can* specify -Z0:
> > 
> >     The change is backward-compatible, hence specifying only an integer
> >     leads to no compression for a level of 0 and gzip compression when the
> >     level is greater than 0.
> > 
> >     $ time ./src/bin/pg_dump/pg_dump -h /tmp regression -t int8_tbl -Fp --compress 0 |file -
> >     /dev/stdin: ASCII text
> 
> FWIW I agree we should make this backwards-compatible - accept "0" and
> treat it as no compression.
> 
> Georgios, can you prepare a patch doing that?

I think maybe Tomas misunderstood.  What I was trying to say is that -Z
0 *is* accepted to mean no compression.  This part wasn't quoted, but I
said:

> Right now, I think that pg_fatal in gzip.c is dead code - that was first
> added in the patch version sent on 21 Dec 2022.

If you run the diff command that I've been talking about, you'll see
that InitCompressorZlib was almost unchanged - e9960732 is essentially a
refactoring.  I don't think it's desirable to add a pg_fatal() in a
function that's otherwise nearly-unchanged.  The fact that it's
nearly-unchanged is a good thing: it simplifies reading of what changed.
If someone wants to add a pg_fatal() in that code path, it'd be better
done in its own commit, with a separate message explaining the change.

If you insist on changing anything here, you might add an assertion (as
you said earlier) along with a comment like
/* -Z 0 uses the "None" compressor rather than zlib with no compression */

-- 
Justin

Commits

  1. Advance input pointer when LZ4 compressing data

  2. Null-terminate the output buffer of LZ4Stream_gets

  3. Rework code defining default compression for dir/custom formats in pg_dump

  4. pg_dump: Use only LZ4 frame format for compression

  5. Minor comment improvements for compress_lz4

  6. Unify buffer sizes in pg_dump compression API

  7. Improve type handling in pg_dump's compress file API

  8. Improve wording in pg_dump compression docs

  9. Fix condition in pg_dump TAP test

  10. Add LZ4 compression to pg_dump

  11. Introduce a generic pg_dump compression API

  12. Prepare pg_dump internals for additional compression methods

  13. Fix behavior with pg_restore -l and compressed dumps

  14. Add 250c8ee07ed to git-blame-ignore-revs

  15. Provide test coverage in pg_dump for default behaviors with compression

  16. Switch pg_dump to use compression specifications

  17. Refactor code parsing compression option values (-Z/--compress)

  18. meson: Add some missing env settings for tests of pg_dump and pg_verifybackup

  19. Extend TAP tests of pg_dump to test for compression with gzip

  20. Clean up some dead code in pg_dump with tar format and gzip compression

  21. Add TAP test in pg_dump with --format=tar and --compress

  22. Replace BASE_BACKUP COMPRESSION_LEVEL option with COMPRESSION_DETAIL.

  23. Refactor the pg_dump zlib code from pg_backup_custom.c to a separate file,