Re: zstd compression for pg_dump - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Wed, Mar 29, 2023 at 6:35 AM Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com> wrote:
> If you have a zstd library with thread support, you could test with
> -Z zstd:workers=3.  But I think threads aren't enabled in the common
> libzstd packages.  Jacob figured out how to compile libzstd easily using
> "meson wraps" - but I don't know the details.

From the source root,

    $ mkdir subprojects
    $ meson wrap install zstd

From then on, Meson was pretty automagical about it during the ninja
build. The subproject's settings are themselves inspectable and
settable via `meson configure`:

    $ meson configure -Dzstd:<option>=<value>

--Jacob