Re: [HACKERS] Custom compression methods

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>, Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut@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>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2021-03-22T14:41:33Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Sun, Mar 21, 2021 at 7:55 PM Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com> wrote:
> Rebased again.

Thanks, Justin. I committed 0003 and 0004 together as
226e2be3876d0bda3dc33d16dfa0bed246b7b74f. I also committed 0001 and
0002 together as 24f0e395ac5892cd12e8914646fe921fac5ba23d, but with
some revisions, because your text was not clear that this is setting
the default for new tables, not new values; it also implied that this
only affects out-of-line compression, which is not true. In lieu of
trying to explain how TOAST works here, I added a link. It looks,
though, like that documentation also needs to be patched for this
change. I'll look into that, and your remaining patches, next.

-- 
Robert Haas
EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com



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.