Re: No error checking when reading from file using zstd in pg_dump

Tomas Vondra <tomas@vondra.me>

From: Tomas Vondra <tomas@vondra.me>
To: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Evgeniy Gorbanev <gorbanyoves@basealt.ru>, pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2025-07-01T15:11:55Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

On 7/1/25 16:24, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
>> On 26 Jun 2025, at 20:01, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se> wrote:
>>
>>> On 26 Jun 2025, at 15:33, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>>
>>> So on the whole I prefer the "void" approach.  I'm not dead
>>> set on that though, it's just a niggling worry.
>>
>> I think the likelyhood of it being a problem in practice is pretty slim, but
>> it's still a stronger argument than my "match an API we're still not aligned
>> with". The attached v7 reverts back to void return.
> 
> In preparing for concluding this I've attached a v8 which is the patchset in v7
> squashed into a single commit with an attempt at a commit message.
> 

Thanks!

> This version has been tested against v17 and v16 where it applies and passes
> all tests (the latter isn't as assuring as it should be since there is a lack
> of testcoverage).
> 

Could you elaborate what you mean by lack of test coverage? Doesn't
pg_dump have TAP tests exercising all compression methods? Perhaps it
does not exercise all parts of the code, and we could improve that?

regards

-- 
Tomas Vondra




Commits

  1. pg_dump: Fix compression API errorhandling