Re: [HACKERS] Custom compression methods

Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut@gmail.com>

From: Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut@gmail.com>
To: Jaime Casanova <jcasanov@systemguards.com.ec>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>, 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: 2021-03-24T08:13:57Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 1:22 PM Jaime Casanova
<jcasanov@systemguards.com.ec> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 2:44 PM Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I committed the core patch (0003) with a bit more editing.  Let's see
> > what the buildfarm thinks.
> >
>
> I think this is bbe0a81db69bd10bd166907c3701492a29aca294, right?
> This introduced a new assert failure, steps to reproduce:
>
> """
> create table t1 (col1 text, col2 text);
> create unique index on t1 ((col1 || col2));
> insert into t1 values((select array_agg(md5(g::text))::text from
> generate_series(1, 256) g), version());
> """
>
> Attached is a backtrace from current HEAD

Thanks for reporting this issue.  Actually, I missed setting the
attcompression for the expression index and that is causing this
assert.  I will send a patch in some time.

-- 
Regards,
Dilip Kumar
EnterpriseDB: 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.