On Tue, May 23, 2023 at 05:56:13PM +0300, Aleksander Alekseev wrote:
> TWIMC there is an ongoing discussion [1] of making TOAST pointers
> extendable since this is a dependency for several patches that are
> currently in development.
Thanks for the ping. I have seen and read the other thread, and
Hi,
> Yeah - I think we had better reserve the fourth bit pattern for
> something extensible e.g. another byte or several to specify the
> actual method, so that we don't have a hard limit of 4 methods.
TWIMC there is an ongoing discussion [1] of making TOAST pointers
extendable since this is a d
В письме от пятница, 20 мая 2022 г. 23:17:42 MSK пользователь Stephen Frost
написал:
> While I generally agree that we want to provide extensibility in this
> area, given that we already have zstd as a compile-time option and it
> exists in other parts of the system, I don't think it makes sense
On Fri, May 20, 2022 at 4:17 PM Stephen Frost wrote:
> A thought I've had before is that it'd be nice to specify a particular
> compression method on a data type basis. Wasn't the direction that this
> was taken, for reasons, but I wonder about perhaps still having a data
> type compression metho
On Mon, May 23, 2022 at 12:33 AM Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 04:12:01PM -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> > On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 4:20 AM Michael Paquier wrote:
> >> Btw, shouldn't we have something a bit more, err, extensible for the
> >> design of an extensible varlena header?
On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 04:12:01PM -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 4:20 AM Michael Paquier wrote:
>> Btw, shouldn't we have something a bit more, err, extensible for the
>> design of an extensible varlena header? If we keep it down to some
>> bitwise information, we'd be fine
Greetings,
* Nikolay Shaplov (dh...@nataraj.su) wrote:
> В письме от вторник, 17 мая 2022 г. 23:01:07 MSK пользователь Tom Lane
> написал:
>
> Hi! I came to this branch looking for a patch to review, but I guess I would
> join the discussion instead of reading the code.
Seems that's what would
On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 4:20 AM Michael Paquier wrote:
> Btw, shouldn't we have something a bit more, err, extensible for the
> design of an extensible varlena header? If we keep it down to some
> bitwise information, we'd be fine for a long time but it would be
> annoying to review again an exte
В письме от вторник, 17 мая 2022 г. 23:01:07 MSK пользователь Tom Lane
написал:
Hi! I came to this branch looking for a patch to review, but I guess I would
join the discussion instead of reading the code.
> >> Yeah - I think we had better reserve the fourth bit pattern for
> >> something exten
On Wed, May 18, 2022 at 9:47 PM Robert Haas wrote:
>
> I do understand that Zstandard is a good compression algorithm, and if
> we had an extensibility mechanism here where one of the four possible
> bit patterns then indicates that the next byte (or two or four) stores
> the real algorithm type,
On Wed, May 18, 2022 at 12:17:16PM -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> i.e. something like:
>
> 00 = PGLZ
> 01 = LZ4
> 10 = reserved for future emergencies
> 11 = extended header with additional type byte (1 of 256 possible
> values reserved for Zstandard)
Btw, shouldn't we have something a bit more, err
On Wed, May 18, 2022 at 9:17 AM Robert Haas wrote:
> But I want to point out here that you haven't really offered any kind
> of argument in favor of supporting Zstd. You basically seem to just be
> arguing that it's dumb to worry about running out of bit space, and I
> think that's just obviously
On Tue, May 17, 2022 at 02:54:28PM -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> I don't particularly have anything against adding Zstandard
> compression here, but I wonder whether there's any rush. If we decide
> not to add this now, we can always change our minds and add it later,
> but if we decide to add it now
On Tue, May 17, 2022 at 4:12 PM Stephen Frost wrote:
> I'm getting a bit of deja-vu here from when I was first trying to add
> TRUNCATE as a GRANT'able option and being told we didn't want to burn
> those precious bits.
Right, it's the same issue ... although in that case there are a lot
more bit
On Tue, May 17, 2022 at 04:12:14PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote:
> * Tom Lane (t...@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote:
>> I'm with Robert in that I do not see any urgency to add another method.
Okay.
>> The fact that Stephen is already questioning whether LZ4 should have
>> been added first is not making me any
Greetings,
* Tom Lane (t...@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote:
> Stephen Frost writes:
> > * Robert Haas (robertmh...@gmail.com) wrote:
> >> Yeah - I think we had better reserve the fourth bit pattern for
> >> something extensible e.g. another byte or several to specify the
> >> actual method, so that we don'
Stephen Frost writes:
> * Robert Haas (robertmh...@gmail.com) wrote:
>> Yeah - I think we had better reserve the fourth bit pattern for
>> something extensible e.g. another byte or several to specify the
>> actual method, so that we don't have a hard limit of 4 methods. But
>> even with such a sys
Greetings,
* Robert Haas (robertmh...@gmail.com) wrote:
> On Tue, May 17, 2022 at 12:19 AM Michael Paquier wrote:
> > Toast compression is supported for LZ4, and thanks to the refactoring
> > work done with compression methods assigned to an attribute, adding
> > support for more methods is strai
On Tue, May 17, 2022 at 12:19 AM Michael Paquier wrote:
> Toast compression is supported for LZ4, and thanks to the refactoring
> work done with compression methods assigned to an attribute, adding
> support for more methods is straight-forward, as long as we don't
> support more than 4 methods as
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