Re: Teach pg_receivewal to use lz4 compression

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On Friday, July 2nd, 2021 at 03:10, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz> wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 01, 2021 at 02:10:17PM +0000, gkokolatos(at)pm(dot)me wrote:
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> > Micheal suggested on the same thread to move my entry in the help output so that
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> > the output remains ordered. I would like the options for the compression method and
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> > the already existing compression level to next to each other if possible. Then it
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> > should be either 'X' or 'Y'.
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> Hmm. Grouping these together makes sense for the user. One choice
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> that we have here is to drop the short option, and just use a long
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> one. What I think is important for the user when it comes to this
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> option is the consistency of its naming across all the tools
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> supporting it. pg_dump and pg_basebackup, where we could plug LZ4,
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> already use most of the short options you could use for pg_receivewal,
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> having only a long one gives a bit more flexibility.

Good point. I am going with that one.

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> Michael