Re: Add LZ4 compression in pg_dump

The patch is failing on cfbot/freebsd.
http://cfbot.cputube.org/georgios-kokolatos.html

Also, I wondered if you'd looked at the "high compression" interfaces in
lz4hc.h ? Should pg_dump use that ?

On Fri, Feb 25, 2022 at 08:03:40AM -0600, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> Thanks for working on this. Your 0001 looks similar to what I did for zstd 1-2
> years ago.
> https://commitfest.postgresql.org/32/2888/
>
> I rebased and attached the latest patches I had in case they're useful to you.
> I'd like to see zstd included in pg_dump eventually, but it was too much work
> to shepherd the patches. Now that seems reasonable for pg16.
>
> With the other compression patches I've worked on, we've used an extra patch
> with changes the default to the new compression algorithm, to force cfbot to
> exercize the new code.
>
> Do you know the process with commitfests and cfbot ?
> There's also this, which allows running the tests on cirrus before mailing the
> patch to the hackers list.
> ./src/tools/ci/README