Re: Compression of full-page-writes

On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 11:52 PM, Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com> wrote:
> So, our consensus is to introduce the hooks for FPW compression so that
> users can freely select their own best compression algorithm?
> Also, probably we need to implement at least one compression contrib module
> using that hook, maybe it's based on pglz or snappy.

I don't favor making this pluggable. I think we should pick snappy or
lz4 (or something else), put it in the tree, and use it.

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