Re: Teach pg_receivewal to use lz4 compression

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On Tuesday, November 2nd, 2021 at 9:51 AM, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz> wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 02, 2021 at 07:27:50AM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 01, 2021 at 08:39:59AM +0000, gkokolatos(at)pm(dot)me wrote:
> > > Agreed.
> > >
> > > I have already started on v8 of the patch with that technique. I should
> > > be able to update the thread soon.
> >
> > Nice, thanks!
>

A pleasure. Please find it in the attached v8-0002 patch.

> By the way, I was reading the last version of the patch today, and
> it seems to me that we could make the commit history if we split the
> patch into two parts:
> - One that introduces the new option --compression-method and
> is_xlogfilename(), while reworking --compress (including documentation
> changes).
> - One to have LZ4 support.

Agreed.

>
> v7 has been using "gzip" for the option name, but I think that it
> would be more consistent to use "zlib" instead.

Done.

Cheers,
//Georgios

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> Michael