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Re: Add LZ4 compression in pg_dump

Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>

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From: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
To: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Cc: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@enterprisedb.com>, gkokolatos@pm.me, shiy.fnst@fujitsu.com, pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org, Rachel Heaton <rachelmheaton@gmail.com>
Date: 2023-03-01T07:24:59Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Tue, Feb 28, 2023 at 05:58:34PM -0600, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> I found that e9960732a broke writing of empty gzip-compressed data,
> specifically LOs.  pg_dump succeeds, but then the restore fails:

The number of issues you have been reporting here begins to worries
me..  How many of them have you found?  Is it right to assume that all
of them have basically 03d02f5 as oldest origin point?
--
Michael

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,