Re: Zedstore - compressed in-core columnar storage

On 11/04/19 4:01 PM, Mark Kirkwood wrote:
> On 9/04/19 12:27 PM, Ashwin Agrawal wrote:
>
>> Heikki and I have been hacking recently for few weeks to implement
>> in-core columnar storage for PostgreSQL. Here's the design and initial
>> implementation of Zedstore, compressed in-core columnar storage (table
>> access method). Attaching the patch and link to github branch [1] to
>> follow along.
>>
>>
>
> Very nice. I realize that it is very early days, but applying this 
> patch I've managed to stumble over some compression bugs doing some 
> COPY's:
>
> benchz=# COPY dim1 FROM '/data0/dump/dim1.dat'
> USING DELIMITERS ',';
> psql: ERROR:  compression failed. what now?
> CONTEXT:  COPY dim1, line 458
>
> The log has:
>
> 2019-04-11 15:48:43.976 NZST [2006] ERROR:  XX000: compression failed. 
> what now?
> 2019-04-11 15:48:43.976 NZST [2006] CONTEXT:  COPY dim1, line 458
> 2019-04-11 15:48:43.976 NZST [2006] LOCATION: zs_compress_finish, 
> zedstore_compression.c:287
> 2019-04-11 15:48:43.976 NZST [2006] STATEMENT:  COPY dim1 FROM 
> '/data0/dump/dim1.dat'
>     USING DELIMITERS ',';
>
> The dataset is generated from and old DW benchmark I wrote 
> (https://sourceforge.net/projects/benchw/). The row concerned looks like:
>
> 457,457th interesting measure,1th measure 
> type,aqwycdevcmybxcnpwqgrdsmfelaxfpbhfxghamfezdiwfvneltvqlivstwralshsppcpchvdkdbraoxnkvexdbpyzgamajfp
> 458,458th interesting measure,2th measure 
> type,bjgdsciehjvkxvxjqbhtdwtcftpfewxfhfkzjsdrdabbvymlctghsblxucezydghjrgsjjjnmmqhncvpwbwodhnzmtakxhsg
>
>
> I'll see if changing to LZ4 makes any different.
>
>

The COPY works with LZ4 configured.