Re: Add LZ4 compression in pg_dump

Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>

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: 2023-02-24T04:35:14Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Thu, Feb 23, 2023 at 07:51:16PM -0600, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 23, 2023 at 09:24:46PM +0100, Tomas Vondra wrote:
>> I've now pushed 0002 and 0003, after minor tweaks (a couple typos etc.),
>> and marked the CF entry as committed. Thanks for the patch!
> 
> A big thanks from me to everyone involved.

Wow, nice!  The APIs are clear to follow.

> I'll send a patch soon.  I first submitted patches for that 2 years ago
> (before PGDG was ready to add zstd).
> https://commitfest.postgresql.org/31/2888/

Thanks.  It should be straight-forward to see that in 16, I guess.
--
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,