Re: WAL compression setting after PostgreSQL LZ4 default change

From: Andreas Karlsson <andreas(at)proxel(dot)se>
To: Tomas Vondra <tomas(at)vondra(dot)me>, Christoph Berg <myon(at)debian(dot)org>, Andrey Borodin <x4mmm(at)yandex-team(dot)ru>, wenhui qiu <qiuwenhuifx(at)gmail(dot)com>, Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres(at)jeltef(dot)nl>, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, Japin Li <japinli(at)hotmail(dot)com>, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-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: 2026-08-03 08:26:10
Message-ID: fb536abd-9785-4320-9aa4-658617356c66@proxel.se
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On 7/31/26 23:44, Tomas Vondra wrote:
> As for the zstd vs. lz4 - the patch put zstd first mostly because
> Michael prefers it over lz4. I don't think either of these is superior.
> AFAIK the algorithms make different trade offs - zstd tends to compress
> better, but uses (substantially) more CPU. I think it makes sense to
> default to lz4, it's clearly better than pglz, with low CPU usage.

+1 I think lz4 is the more sensible default due to the low CPU usage.

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Andreas Karlsson
Percona

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