Re: Add LZ4 compression in pg_dump

Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@enterprisedb.com>

From: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@enterprisedb.com>
To: gkokolatos@pm.me, "shiy.fnst@fujitsu.com" <shiy.fnst@fujitsu.com>
Cc: 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: 2023-02-19T17:10:13Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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Hi Georgios,

I spent some time looking at the patch again, and IMO it's RFC. But I
need some help with the commit messages - I updated 0001 and 0002 but I
wasn't quite sure what some of the stuff meant to say and/or it seemed
maybe coming from an earlier patch version and obsolete.

Could you go over them and check if I got it right? Also feel free to
update the list of reviewers (I compiled that from substantial reviews
on the thread).

The 0003 commit message seems somewhat confusing - I added some XXX
lines asking about unclear stuff.


regards

-- 
Tomas Vondra
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

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,