Re: alternative compression algorithms?

On 04/20/15 05:07, Andres Freund wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 2015-04-19 22:51:53 +0200, Tomas Vondra wrote:
>> The reason why I'm asking about this is the multivariate statistics patch -
>> while optimizing the planning overhead, I realized that considerable amount
>> of time is spent decompressing the statistics (serialized as bytea), and
>> using an algorithm with better decompression performance (lz4 comes to mind)
>> would help a lot. The statistics may be a few tens/hundreds kB, and in the
>> planner every millisecond counts.
>
> I've a hard time believing that a different compression algorithm is
>  going to be the solution for that. Decompressing, quite possibly
> repeatedly, several hundreds of kb during planning isn't going to be
>  fun. Even with a good, fast, compression algorithm.

Sure, it's not an ultimate solution, but it might help a bit. I do have 
other ideas how to optimize this, but in the planner every milisecond 
counts. Looking at 'perf top' and seeing pglz_decompress() in top 3.

regards
Tomas