Re: Compress ReorderBuffer spill files using LZ4

On 2024-Jun-07, Dilip Kumar wrote:

> I think the compression option should be supported at the CREATE
> SUBSCRIPTION level instead of being controlled by a GUC. This way, we
> can decide on compression for each subscription individually rather
> than applying it to all subscribers. It makes more sense for the
> subscriber to control this, especially when we are planning to
> compress the data sent downstream.

True.  (I think we have some options that are in GUCs for the general
behavior and can be overridden by per-subscription options for specific
tailoring; would that make sense here?  I think it does, considering
that what we mostly want is to save disk space in the publisher when
spilling to disk.)

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