Re: test_compression, test module for low-level compression APIs (for 2b5ba2a0a141)

Jacob Champion <jacob.champion@enterprisedb.com>

From: Jacob Champion <jacob.champion@enterprisedb.com>

To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

Cc: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>, Postgres hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>

Date: 2026-04-13T16:06:56Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

On Mon, Apr 13, 2026 at 7:08 AM Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
>
> Doing low-level unittests by doing inter-process
> communication from psql to the server, marshalling everything through text, is
> insane.

+1. (I'm more than happy to provide eyes/code/pairing/etc. for C unit
test infrastructure, since I've been pushing on that from the client
side recently.)

--Jacob

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Add tests for low-level PGLZ [de]compression routines
- e138b78cdc96 14.23 landed
- 6b59bd710be1 15.18 landed
- caee654e05e8 16.14 landed
- c78947badc70 17.10 landed
- 42473d90098d 18.4 landed
- 67d318e70402 19 (unreleased) landed
Fix heap-buffer-overflow in pglz_decompress() on corrupt input.
- 2b5ba2a0a141 19 (unreleased) cited