Re: Teach pg_receivewal to use lz4 compression

Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>

From: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
To: gkokolatos@pm.me
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2021-11-04T08:21:53Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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On Thu, Nov 04, 2021 at 04:31:48PM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> I would have expected read_size to be (readend - readp) to match with
> the remaining data in the read buffer that we still need to read.
> Shouldn't out_size also be LZ4_CHUNK_SZ to match with the size of the
> output buffer where all the contents are read?  By setting it to 1, I
> think that this is doing more loops into LZ4F_decompress() than really
> necessary.  It would not hurt either to memset(0) those buffers before
> they are used, IMO.  I am not completely sure either, but should we
> use the number of bytes returned by LZ4F_decompress() as a hint for
> the follow-up loops?
>
> +#ifdef HAVE_LIBLZ4
> +    while (readp < readend)
> +    {
> +        size_t        read_size = 1;
> +        size_t        out_size = 1;
> +
> +        status = LZ4F_decompress(ctx, outbuf, &out_size,
> +                                 readbuf, &read_size, NULL);

And...  It happens that the error from v9 is here, where we need to
read the amount of remaining data from "readp", and not "readbuf" :)

It is already late here, I'll continue on this stuff tomorrow, but
this looks rather committable overall. 
--
Michael

Commits

  1. Fix header inclusion order in pg_receivewal.c

  2. Remove useless LZ4 system call on failure when writing file header

  3. Add support for LZ4 compression in pg_receivewal

  4. Rework compression options of pg_receivewal

  5. Clarify some errors in pg_receivewal when closing WAL segments