Re: astreamer_lz4: fix bug of output pointer advancement in decompressor

Chao Li <li(dot)evan(dot)chao(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> There have been a couple of LZ4-related patches recently, so I spent some time playing with the LZ4 path and found a bug in astreamer_lz4_decompressor_content().

Yup, that's clearly wrong. I failed to reproduce a crash with the
test hack you suggested, but no matter. Pushed with some cosmetic
editorialization.

The track record of all this client-side-compression logic is
really quite awful :-(. Another thing that I'm looking askance
at is the error handling, or rather lack of it:

ret = LZ4F_decompress(mystreamer->dctx,
next_out, &out_size,
next_in, &read_size, NULL);

if (LZ4F_isError(ret))
pg_log_error("could not decompress data: %s",
LZ4F_getErrorName(ret));

... continue on our merry way ...

I suspect whoever wrote this thought pg_log_error is equivalent
to elog(ERROR), but it's not; it just prints a message. It seems
highly unlikely to me that continuing onwards will result in a
good outcome. I'm a bit inclined to s/pg_log_error/pg_fatal/
throughout these files, at least in places where there's no
visible effort to handle the error.

regards, tom lane