On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 3:44 AM Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> wrote: > > > I think having a simple framework in pg_basebackup for plugging in new > > algorithms would make it noticeably simpler to add LZ4 or whatever > > your favorite compression algorithm is. And I think having that > > framework also be able to use shell commands, so that users don't have > > to wait a decade or more for new choices to show up, is also a good > > idea. > > As long as here's sensible defaults, and so that the user doesn't have > to specify paths to binaries for the common cases, I'm OK with that. I'm > not ok with requiring the user to specify shell fragments for things > that should be built in. > > If we think the appropriate way to implement extensible compression is > by piping to commandline binaries ([1]), >
I can see how such a scheme could be useful for backups but how do we restore such a backup? -- With Regards, Amit Kapila. EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
