Re: Proposal: custom compression methods

From: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Proposal: custom compression methods
Date: 2015-12-17 03:23:25
Message-ID: CAB7nPqREEVz987U2o-LZaXBMRmm0X+-+Ze2Lr01gXNWXwE+SzA@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 10:17 PM, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:
> Again. Unless I miss something that was solved in
> www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/20130615102028(dot)GK19500(at)alap2(dot)anarazel(dot)de
>
> Personally I think we should add lz4 and maybe on strongly compressing
> algorithm and be done with it. Runtime extensibility will make this much
> more complicated, and I doubt it's worth the complexity.

+1, at the end we are going to have the same conclusion as for FPW
compression when we discussed that, let's just switch to something
that is less CPU-consuming than pglz, and lz4 is a good candidate for
that.
--
Michael

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