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Re: Add LZ4 compression in pg_dump

Alexander Law <exclusion@gmail.com>

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From: Alexander Lakhin <exclusion@gmail.com>
To: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@enterprisedb.com>, gkokolatos@pm.me
Cc: "shiy.fnst@fujitsu.com" <shiy.fnst@fujitsu.com>, Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>, Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>, "pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>, Rachel Heaton <rachelmheaton@gmail.com>
Date: 2023-03-11T06:00:00Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Hello,
23.02.2023 23:24, Tomas Vondra wrote:
> On 2/23/23 16:26, Tomas Vondra wrote:
>> Thanks for v30 with the updated commit messages. I've pushed 0001 after
>> fixing a comment typo and removing (I think) an unnecessary change in an
>> error message.
>>
>> I'll give the buildfarm a bit of time before pushing 0002 and 0003.
>>
> I've now pushed 0002 and 0003, after minor tweaks (a couple typos etc.),
> and marked the CF entry as committed. Thanks for the patch!
>
> I wonder how difficult would it be to add the zstd compression, so that
> we don't have the annoying "unsupported" cases.

With the patch 0003 committed, a single warning -Wtype-limits appeared in the
master branch:
$ CPPFLAGS="-Og -Wtype-limits" ./configure --with-lz4 -q && make -s -j8
compress_lz4.c: In function ‘LZ4File_gets’:
compress_lz4.c:492:19: warning: comparison of unsigned expression in ‘< 0’ is 
always false [-Wtype-limits]
   492 |         if (dsize < 0)
       |
(I wonder, is it accidental that there no other places that triggers
the warning, or some buildfarm animals had this check enabled before?)

It is not a false positive as can be proved by the 002_pg_dump.pl modified as
follows:
-                       program => $ENV{'LZ4'},
+                       program => 'mv',
                         args    => [
-                               '-z', '-f', '--rm',
"$tempdir/compression_lz4_dir/blobs.toc",
"$tempdir/compression_lz4_dir/blobs.toc.lz4",
                         ],
                 },
A diagnostic logging added shows:
LZ4File_gets() after LZ4File_read_internal; dsize: 18446744073709551615

and pg_restore fails with:
error: invalid line in large object TOC file 
".../src/bin/pg_dump/tmp_check/tmp_test_22ri/compression_lz4_dir/blobs.toc": "????"

Best regards,
Alexander

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,