Re: Compression of full-page-writes

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>, KONDO Mitsumasa <kondo(dot)mitsumasa(at)lab(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>, Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri(at)2ndquadrant(dot)fr>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Compression of full-page-writes
Date: 2013-10-24 15:07:38
Message-ID: CA+TgmobAwOyc1BTbm82cQyogLjLUJWS5PdQcPrhNPaVo+i_LWQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 11:52 PM, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> So, our consensus is to introduce the hooks for FPW compression so that
> users can freely select their own best compression algorithm?
> Also, probably we need to implement at least one compression contrib module
> using that hook, maybe it's based on pglz or snappy.

I don't favor making this pluggable. I think we should pick snappy or
lz4 (or something else), put it in the tree, and use it.

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Robert Haas
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