Re: [HACKERS] Custom compression methods

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Cc: Justin Pryzby <pryzby(at)telsasoft(dot)com>, 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 20:41:41
Message-ID: 299227.1616272901@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
> On 3/20/21 3:03 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> I fixed up some issues in 0008/0009 (mostly cosmetic, except that
>> you forgot a server version check in dumpToastCompression) and
>> pushed that, so we can see if it makes crake happy.

> It's still produced a significant amount more difference between the
> dumps. For now I've increased the fuzz factor a bit like this:

Ah, our emails crossed.

> I'll try to come up with something better. Maybe just ignore lines like
> SET default_toast_compression = 'pglz';
> when taking the diff.

I noticed that there were a fair number of other diffs besides those.
Seems like we need some better comparison technology, really, but I'm
not certain what.

regards, tom lane

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