Re: WAL compression setting after PostgreSQL LZ4 default change

From: Japin Li <japinli(at)hotmail(dot)com>
To: Christoph Berg <myon(at)debian(dot)org>
Cc: wenhui qiu <qiuwenhuifx(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, John Naylor <johncnaylorls(at)gmail(dot)com>, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
Subject: Re: WAL compression setting after PostgreSQL LZ4 default change
Date: 2026-06-30 13:48:50
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On Tue, 30 Jun 2026 at 12:51, Christoph Berg <myon(at)debian(dot)org> wrote:
> Re: wenhui qiu
>> The recent PostgreSQL commit changes the default TOAST compression to lz4
>> when LZ4 support is available, based on the rationale that LZ4 is generally
>> more efficient than pglz in terms of CPU usage and compression ratio.Given
>> that, should we also consider changing the default compression method used
>> by wal_compression = on from pglz to lz4?
>
> +1 from me. I would prefer this patch over the doc-only one that I
> sent in the other thread.
>
> This should go into PG19 so we don't have two different versions that
> flip the default from pglz to lz4.
>

+1. LGTM.

> Christoph

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Japin Li
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