Re: Add LZ4 compression in pg_dump

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On Thursday, January 26th, 2023 at 12:53 PM, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz> wrote:

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>
> On Thu, Jan 26, 2023 at 11:24:47AM +0000, gkokolatos(at)pm(dot)me wrote:
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> > I gave this a little bit of thought. I think that ReadHead should not
> > emit a warning, or at least not this warning as it is slightly misleading.
> > It implies that it will automatically turn off data restoration, which is
> > false. Further ahead, the code will fail with a conflicting error message
> > stating that the compression is not available.
> >
> > Instead, it would be cleaner both for the user and the maintainer to
> > move the check in RestoreArchive and make it the sole responsible for
> > this logic.
>
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> - pg_fatal("cannot restore from compressed archive (compression not supported in this installation)");
> + pg_fatal("cannot restore data from compressed archive (compression not supported in this installation)");
> Hmm. I don't mind changing this part as you suggest.
>
> -#ifndef HAVE_LIBZ
> - if (AH->compression_spec.algorithm == PG_COMPRESSION_GZIP)
>
> - pg_fatal("archive is compressed, but this installation does not support compression");
> -#endif
> However I think that we'd better keep the warning, as it can offer a
> hint when using pg_restore -l not built with compression support if
> looking at a dump that has been compressed.

Fair enough. Please find v27 attached.

Cheers,
//Georgios

> --
> Michael