Re: Teach pg_receivewal to use lz4 compression

On Sat, Feb 12, 2022 at 12:52:40PM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 11, 2022 at 10:07:49AM -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
> > Over in http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoYUDEJga2qV_XbAZ=pGEBaOsgFmzZ6Ac4_sRwOm_+UeHA@mail.gmail.com
> > I was noticing that CreateWalTarMethod doesn't support LZ4
> > compression. It would be nice if it did. I thought maybe the patch on
> > this thread would fix that, but I think maybe it doesn't, because it
> > looks like that's touching the WalDirectoryMethod part of that file,
> > rather than the WalTarMethod part. Is that correct?
>
> Correct. pg_receivewal only cares about the directory method, so this
> thread was limited to this part. Yes, it would be nice to extend
> fully the tar method of walmethods.c to support LZ4, but I was not
> sure what needed to be done, and I am still not sure based on what has
> just been done as of 751b8d23.
>
> > And, on a related note, Michael, do you plan to get something
> > committed here?
>
> Apart from f79962d, babbbb5 and 50e1441, I don't think that there was
> something left to do for this thread. Perhaps I am missing something?

I think this should use <lz4frame.h>

+#include "lz4frame.h"

commit babbbb595d2322da095a1e6703171b3f1f2815cb
Author: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
Date: Fri Nov 5 11:33:25 2021 +0900

Add support for LZ4 compression in pg_receivewal

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Justin