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Re: [HACKERS] Custom compression methods (mac+lz4.h)

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Cc: Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut@gmail.com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, 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>, Andrey Borodin <x4mmm@yandex-team.ru>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2021-03-21T23:52:09Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com> writes:
> On Sun, Mar 21, 2021 at 07:11:50PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but this suggests that
>> LZ4_decompress_safe_partial is seriously broken in 1.9.2
>> as well:
>> https://github.com/lz4/lz4/issues/783

> Ouch

Actually, after reading that closer, the problem only affects the
case where the compressed-data-length passed to the function is
a lie.  So it shouldn't be a problem for our usage.

Also, after studying the documentation for LZ4_decompress_safe
and LZ4_decompress_safe_partial, I realized that liblz4 is also
counting on the *output* buffer size to not be a lie.  So we
cannot pass it a number larger than the chunk's true decompressed
size.  The attached patch resolves the issue I'm seeing.

			regards, tom lane

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.