Re: head fails to build on SLES 12 (wal_compression=zstd)

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Justin Pryzby <pryzby(at)telsasoft(dot)com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Devrim Gündüz <devrim(at)gunduz(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
Subject: Re: head fails to build on SLES 12 (wal_compression=zstd)
Date: 2022-03-31 15:44:40
Message-ID: 641010.1648741480@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Justin Pryzby <pryzby(at)telsasoft(dot)com> writes:
> Possible responses look like:
> - Use 0 which also means "default" (need to verify that works across versions);
> - Or #ifndef ZSTD_CLEVEL_DEFAULT #define ZSTD_CLEVEL_DEFAULT 3;
> - Add a test for a minimum zstd version v1.3.7. This may be a good idea for
> v15 in any case, since we're using a few different APIs (at least
> ZSTD_compress and ZSTD_compressStream2 and execve(zstd)).

In view of 51c0d186d ("Allow parallel zstd compression"), I agree
that some clarity about the minimum supported version of zstd
seems essential. I don't want to be dealing with threading bugs
in ancient zstd versions. However, why do you suggest 1.3.7 in
particular?

regards, tom lane

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