Re: [HACKERS] Custom compression methods

From: Justin Pryzby <pryzby(at)telsasoft(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut(at)gmail(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Alexander Korotkov <a(dot)korotkov(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>, David Steele <david(at)pgmasters(dot)net>, Ildus Kurbangaliev <i(dot)kurbangaliev(at)gmail(dot)com>, Dmitry Dolgov <9erthalion6(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Custom compression methods
Date: 2021-03-20 18:52:10
Message-ID: 20210320185210.GU11765@telsasoft.com
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On Sat, Mar 20, 2021 at 01:36:15PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Justin Pryzby <pryzby(at)telsasoft(dot)com> writes:
> > On Sat, Mar 20, 2021 at 04:37:53PM +0530, Dilip Kumar wrote:
> >> - And, 0008 and 0009, I think my
> >> 0001-Fixup-dump-toast-compression-method.patch[1] is doing this in a
> >> much simpler way, please have a look and let me know if you think that
> >> has any problems and we need to do the way you are doing here?
>
> > I tested and saw that your patch doesn't output "SET default_toast_compression"
> > in non-text dumps (pg_dump -Fc).
>
> Yeah, _doSetFixedOutputState is the wrong place: that runs on the
> pg_restore side of the fence, and would not have access to the
> necessary info in a separated dump/restore run.
>
> It might be necessary to explicitly pass the state through in a TOC item,
> as we do for things like the standard_conforming_strings setting.

My patches do this in 0008 and 0009 - I'd appreciate if you'd take a look.
0009 edits parts of 0008, and if that's all correct then they should be
squished together.

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Justin

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