Re: Add LZ4 compression in pg_dump

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On Friday, December 2nd, 2022 at 2:56 AM, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz> wrote:

> On top of my mind, I briefly recall that -r is not that portable. And
> the toc format makes the files generated non-deterministic as these
> use OIDs..
>
> [.. thinks ..]
>
> We are going to need a new thing here, as compress_cmd cannot be
> directly used. What if we used only an array of glob()-able elements?
> Let's say "expected_contents" that could include a "dir_path/*.gz"
> conditional on $supports_gzip? glob() can only be calculated when the
> test is run as the file names cannot be known beforehand :/

You are very correct. However one can glob after the fact. Please find
0001 of the attached v14 which attempts to implement it.

> I have gone through the patch again, and applied it. Thanks!

Thank you. Please find the rest of of the patchset series rebased on top
of it. I dare to say that 0002 is in a state worth of your consideration.

Cheers,
//Georgios

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> Michael