| From: | Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres(at)jeltef(dot)nl> |
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| To: | Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se> |
| Cc: | Christoph Berg <myon(at)debian(dot)org>, Tomas Vondra <tomas(at)vondra(dot)me>, Andrey Borodin <x4mmm(at)yandex-team(dot)ru>, Ken Marshall <ktm(at)rice(dot)edu>, Hannu Krosing <hannuk(at)google(dot)com>, Andreas Karlsson <andreas(at)proxel(dot)se>, wenhui qiu <qiuwenhuifx(at)gmail(dot)com>, Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, Japin Li <japinli(at)hotmail(dot)com>, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, John Naylor <johncnaylorls(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Subject: | Re: WAL compression setting after PostgreSQL LZ4 default change |
| Date: | 2026-08-08 20:57:55 |
| Message-ID: | CAGECzQSVhJ3irgX1hTcPTvRuHvdUZ6LwfomVDBfPeeW1Y0ZeLA@mail.gmail.com |
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On Sat, Aug 8, 2026, 21:30 Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se> wrote:
> > On 7 Aug 2026, at 22:27, Christoph Berg <myon(at)debian(dot)org> wrote:
> >
> > Re: Tomas Vondra
> >> The question is what does this mean for this thread, i.e. for the
> >> question what should 'on' translate to. I still think zstd seems like a
> >> better default, despite this one result where lz4 does a bit better.
> >> Especially if we know it the difference can be mostly eliminated.
> >
> > To me, this doesn't read like a question but a confirmation that zstd
> > is the correct pick. They are close now, we tend to prefer zstd, and
> > now we know how to make zstd even better in PG 20, then it looks clear
> > that zstd is the "on" to go so we aren't switching twice.
>
> I tend to agree with this reasoning.
>
+1
>
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