Re: pgsql: Add suport for server-side LZ4 base backup compression.

From: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pgsql: Add suport for server-side LZ4 base backup compression.
Date: 2022-02-13 03:28:31
Message-ID: Ygh63xlK4p+mFB8T@paquier.xyz
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On Sat, Feb 12, 2022 at 05:16:03PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> It looks to me like somebody figured it didn't need any more support
> than gzip/bzip2, which is wrong on a couple of grounds:
> * hardly any modern platforms lack those, unlike lz4
> * we don't invoke either one of them during testing, only when
> you explicitly ask to make a compressed tarball
>
> I think adding an explicit PGAC_PATH_PROGS would be worth the cycles.

Well, this somebody is I, and the buildfarm did not blow up on any of
that so that looked rather fine. Adding a few cycles for this check
is fine by me. What do you think of the attached?
--
Michael

Attachment Content-Type Size
lz4-configure.patch text/x-diff 3.3 KB

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