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From John Naylor
Subject Re: [PATCH] Document wal_compression=on
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Msg-id CANWCAZYpQwgs61EF6NO_5L3V0cMZbwPBr15dE13V7Uu8cJ0DsQ@mail.gmail.com
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In response to [PATCH] Document wal_compression=on  (Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org>)
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On Mon, Jun 29, 2026 at 5:04 PM Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org> wrote:
>
> The docs currently don't say what wal_compression=on is, so here is a
> patch.

+1 for documenting this.

+        The value <literal>on</literal> is a deprecated alias for
<literal>pglz</literal>.

"deprecated" implies we may remove it someday. I don't think we'd gain
from doing that, but we could instead call 'on' a "historical
spelling" of 'pglz'.

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John Naylor
Amazon Web Services

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