Re: PGLZ Compression Optimization

From: Andrey Borodin <x4mmm(at)yandex-team(dot)ru>
To: Tomas Vondra <tomas(at)vondra(dot)me>
Cc: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se>, wenhui qiu <qiuwenhuifx(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: PGLZ Compression Optimization
Date: 2026-07-16 15:13:03
Message-ID: 01A1D97C-9FEA-469C-81C5-A9DA71D90F0F@yandex-team.ru
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> On 16 Jul 2026, at 19:06, Tomas Vondra <tomas(at)vondra(dot)me> wrote:
>
> But making the current scheme
> faster (particularly the decompression part) would be a huge benefit for
> existing systems that can't simply recompress everything.

FWIW this spring we took a stab at refactoring old patch [0] about optimizing pglz
decompression ideas into several small patches [1] [2]. We stalled when found some
regressions and work lost momentum.

If anyone is interested - we (me, Nik, Kirk) would be happy to collab. Some enthusiasm
could revive that work.

Best regards, Andrey Borodin.

[0] https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/FEF3DC5E-4BC4-44E1-8DEB-DADC67046FE3%40yandex-team.ru
[1] https://github.com/NikolayS/pglz-compression/pull/20
[2] https://github.com/NikolayS/pglz-compression/pull/20/changes/dcb12183519c2eda76dfadaac005e12de6ad4e01

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