From: | Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> |
Cc: | gkokolatos(at)pm(dot)me, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Teach pg_receivewal to use lz4 compression |
Date: | 2021-07-12 10:27:50 |
Message-ID: | CAFiTN-sjwCowNWtrRAqZjQWDscsx-29Rm1w4PqLrSh+G+zRWzQ@mail.gmail.com |
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On Mon, Jul 12, 2021 at 3:15 PM Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jul 12, 2021 at 11:33 AM <gkokolatos(at)pm(dot)me> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
> >
> > On Monday, July 12th, 2021 at 07:56, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz> wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, Jul 12, 2021 at 11:10:24AM +0530, Dilip Kumar wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Thu, Jul 8, 2021 at 7:48 PM gkokolatos(at)pm(dot)me wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > We can, though I am not in favour of doing so. There is seemingly
> > > > >
> > > > > little benefit for added complexity.
> > > >
> > > > I am really not sure what complexity you are talking about, do you
> > > >
> > > > mean since with pglz we were already providing the compression level
> > > >
> > > > so let it be as it is but with the new compression method you don't
> > > >
> > > > see much benefit of providing compression level or speed?
> > >
> > > You mean s/pglz/zlib/ here perhaps? I am not sure what Georgios has
> > >
> > > in mind, but my opinion stands on the latter: there is little benefit
> > >
> > > in making lz4 faster than the default and reduce compression, as the
> > >
> > > default is already a rather low CPU user.
> >
> > Thank you all for your comments. I am sitting on the same side as Micheal
> > on this one. The complexity is not huge, yet there will need to be code to
> > pass this option to the lz4 api and various test cases to verify for
> > correctness and integrity. The burden of maintenance of this code vs the
> > benefit of the option, tilt the scale towards not including the option.
>
> +1 for skipping that one, at least for now, and sticking to
> default-only for lz4.
Okay, fine with me as well.
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Regards,
Dilip Kumar
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
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