Re: directory archive format for pg_dump

On 29.11.2010 07:11, Joachim Wieland wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 3:44 PM, Heikki Linnakangas
> <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>  wrote:
>> * wrap long lines
>> * use extern in function prototypes in header files
>> * "inline" some functions like _StartDataCompressor, _EndDataCompressor,
>> _DoInflate/_DoDeflate  that aren't doing anything but call some other
>> function.
>
> So here is a new round of patches. It turned out that the feature to
> allow to also restore files from a different dump and with a different
> compression required some changes in the compressor API. And in the
> end I didn't like all the #ifdefs either and made a less #ifdef-rich
> version using function pointers.

Ok. The separate InitCompressorState() and AllocateCompressorState()
functions seem unnecessary. As the code stands, there's little
performance gain from re-using the same CompressorState, just
re-initializing it, and I can't see any other justification for them either.

I combined those, and the Free/Flush steps, and did a bunch of other
editorializations and cleanups. Here's an updated patch, also available
in my git repository at
git://git.postgresql.org/git/users/heikki/postgres.git, branch
"pg_dump-dir". I'm going to continue reviewing this later, tomorrow
hopefully.

> The downside now is that I have
> created quite a few one-line functions that Heikki doesn't like all
> that much, but I assume that they are okay in this case on the grounds
> that the public compressor interface is calling the private
> implementation of a certain compressor.

You could avoid the wrapper functions by calling the function pointers
directly, but I agree it seems neater the way you did it.

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