Re: Add LZ4 compression in pg_dump

> On 27 Mar 2022, at 00:51, Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Mar 27, 2022 at 12:37:27AM +0100, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
>>> On 26 Mar 2022, at 17:21, Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I suggested off-list to add an 0099 patch to change LZ4 to the default, to
>>> exercise it more on CI.
>>
>> No need to change the defaults in autoconf for that.  The CFBot uses the cirrus
>> file in the tree so changing what the job includes can be easily done (assuming
>> the CFBot hasn't changed this recently which I think it hasn't).  I used that
>> trick in the NSS patchset to add a completely new job for --with-ssl=nss beside
>> the --with-ssl=openssl job.
>
> I think you misunderstood - I'm suggesting not only to use with-lz4 (which was
> always true since 93d973494), but to change pg_dump -Fc and -Fd to use LZ4 by
> default (the same as I suggested for toast_compression, wal_compression, and
> again in last year's patch to add zstd compression to pg_dump, for which
> postgres was not ready).

Right, I clearly misunderstood, thanks for the clarification.

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