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Re: multithreaded zstd backup compression for client and server

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

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From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <ilmari@ilmari.org>
Cc: Dipesh Pandit <dipesh.pandit@gmail.com>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>, "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2022-03-28T16:37:01Z
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  1. Document BaseBackupSync and BaseBackupWrite wait events.

  2. Support long distance matching for zstd compression

  3. Fix possible NULL-pointer-deference in backup_compression.c.

  4. Allow parallel zstd compression when taking a base backup.

  5. Make PostgreSQL::Test::Cluster::run_log() return a useful value.

  6. Fix a few goofs in new backup compression code.

  7. Replace BASE_BACKUP COMPRESSION_LEVEL option with COMPRESSION_DETAIL.

  8. Add 'basebackup_to_shell' contrib module.

  9. Allow extensions to add new backup targets.

  10. Change HAVE_LIBLZ4 and HAVE_LIBZSTD tests to USE_LZ4 and USE_ZSTD.

  11. pg_basebackup: Clean up some bogus file extension tests.

  12. pg_basebackup: Avoid unclean failure with server-compression and -D -.

  13. Fix LZ4 tests for remaining buffer space.

  14. Add support for zstd base backup compression.

  15. pg_basebackup: Allow client-side LZ4 (de)compression.

  16. Add suport for server-side LZ4 base backup compression.

  17. Add min() and max() aggregates for xid8.

  18. Remove superfluous variable.

  19. pg_basebackup: Cleaner handling when compression is multiply specified.

  20. Allow server-side compression to be used with -Fp.

  21. pg_basebackup: Fix a couple of recently-introduced bugs.

  22. Tidy up a few cosmetic issues related to pg_basebackup.

  23. Server-side gzip compression.

  24. Unbreak pg_basebackup/t/010_pg_basebackup.pl on msys

  25. Suppress variable-set-but-not-used warning from clang 13.

  26. Extend the options of pg_basebackup to control compression

  27. Support base backup targets.

  28. Modify pg_basebackup to use a new COPY subprotocol for base backups.

  29. Document that tar archives are now properly terminated.

  30. Fix thinko in bbsink_throttle_manifest_contents.

  31. Have the server properly terminate tar archives.

  32. Minimal fix for unterminated tar archive problem.

  33. Introduce 'bbstreamer' abstraction to modularize pg_basebackup.

  34. Introduce 'bbsink' abstraction to modularize base backup code.

  35. Refactor basebackup.c's _tarWriteDir() function.

  36. Flexible options for CREATE_REPLICATION_SLOT.

  37. Flexible options for BASE_BACKUP.

On Thu, Mar 24, 2022 at 9:19 AM Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker
<ilmari@ilmari.org> wrote:
> Per the TAP protocol, every line of non-test-result output should be
> prefixed by "# ". The note() function does this for you, see
> https://metacpan.org/pod/Test::More#Diagnostics for details.

True, but that also means it shows up in the actual failure message,
which seems too verbose. By just using 'print', it ends up in the log
file if it's needed, but not anywhere else. Maybe there's a better way
to do this, but I don't think using note() is what I want.

-- 
Robert Haas
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