| From: | Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> |
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| To: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: adding 'zstd' as a compression algorithm |
| Date: | 2022-02-15 21:42:55 |
| Message-ID: | 20220215214255.cstkc4xpso7jq4j4@alap3.anarazel.de |
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Hi,
On 2022-02-15 15:09:37 -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 15, 2022 at 2:54 PM Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:
> > There's a difference between downloading a source tarball of 1.5x the size,
> > and 3x the decompression cost (made up numbers), because the cost of either is
> > not a relevant factor. I think basebackups are a different story.
>
> To be clear, I'm not saying that people shouldn't choose to adopt the
> new stuff. I'm just saying that many of them won't, for various
> reasons, including inertia. There may come a point when we want to
> make a push to remove obsolete stuff, but I think what is far more
> important right now is making the new stuff available.
I think well before removing stuff we should default to decent compression
algorithms. E.g. -Z/--compress should probably not continue to use gzip if
better things are available.
Greetings,
Andres Freund
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