From: | Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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To: | Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | Joachim Wieland <joe(at)mcknight(dot)de>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila(at)huawei(dot)com> |
Subject: | Re: Optimizing pglz compressor |
Date: | 2013-03-06 16:53:29 |
Message-ID: | 20130306165329.GC4970@alap2.anarazel.de |
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On 2013-03-06 09:36:19 -0600, Merlin Moncure wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 8:32 AM, Joachim Wieland <joe(at)mcknight(dot)de> wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 8:32 AM, Heikki Linnakangas
> > <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com> wrote:
> >> With these tweaks, I was able to make pglz-based delta encoding perform
> >> roughly as well as Amit's patch.
> >
> > Out of curiosity, do we know how pglz compares with other algorithms, e.g. lz4 ?
>
> This has been a subject of much recent discussion. It compares very
> poorly, but installing a new compressor tends to be problematic due to
> patent concerns (something which I disagree with but it's there). All
> that said, Heikki's proposed changes seem to be low risk and quite
> fast.
Imo the licensing part is by far the smaller one. The interesting part
is making a compatible change to the way toast compression works that
supports multiple compression schemes. Afaics nobody has done that work.
After that the choice of to-be-integrated compression schemes needs to
be discussed, sure.
Greetings,
Andres Freund
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