Re: Proposal: custom compression methods - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Michael Paquier
Subject Re: Proposal: custom compression methods
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In response to Re: Proposal: custom compression methods  (Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>)
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On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 10:17 PM, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
> Again. Unless I miss something that was solved in
> www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/20130615102028.GK19500@alap2.anarazel.de
>
> Personally I think we should add lz4 and maybe on strongly compressing
> algorithm and be done with it. Runtime extensibility will make this much
> more complicated, and I doubt it's worth the complexity.

+1, at the end we are going to have the same conclusion as for FPW
compression when we discussed that, let's just switch to something
that is less CPU-consuming than pglz, and lz4 is a good candidate for
that.
-- 
Michael



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