Re: adding 'zstd' as a compression algorithm

From: Justin Pryzby <pryzby(at)telsasoft(dot)com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: adding 'zstd' as a compression algorithm
Date: 2022-02-15 20:33:32
Message-ID: 20220215203332.GB31460@telsasoft.com
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On Tue, Feb 15, 2022 at 03:23:30PM -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 15, 2022 at 1:55 PM Justin Pryzby <pryzby(at)telsasoft(dot)com> wrote:
> > Regarding the patch:
> >
> > I suppose it should support windows, and whatever patches use zstd should
> > update the install instructions. See 9ca40dcd4, 02a93e7ef, 4035cd5d4.
>
> Thanks, this is helpful. To me, it looks like we need something
> similar to 9ca40dcd4, plus something like the last hunk of 02a93e7ef.

If you mean a patch which only adds the configure options, I don't think 02a9
is applicable at all.

What I mean is that any patches which *use* the zstd support should update
those for completeness.

doc/src/sgml/config.sgml | 14 +++++++++-----
doc/src/sgml/install-windows.sgml | 2 +-
doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml | 5 +++--

> The rest of 02a93e7ef and all of 4035cd5d4 seem like they address the
> application of lz4 rather than just adding support for it, so I don't
> see the need for those elements in this patch. Am I missing something?

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