On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 9:56 PM, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> wrote:
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> On 07/25/2015 03:20 AM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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>> On 07/25/2015 02:34 AM, Marc Mamin wrote:
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>>>> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
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>>>>> Hmm. Yeah. It looks like commit
>>>>> a7ad5cf0cfcfab8418000d652fa4f0c6ad6c8911
>>>>> changed from using the default compression for libz to using the
>>>>> compression set in pg_dump options, which defaults to 0. This actually
>>>>> seems like the right thing to do, but it certainly should have been
>>>>> called out much more forcefully in release notes, and arguably should
>>>>> not have been changed in stable releases. Not sure what we do about it
>>>>> now.
>>>
>>> really 0? wouldn't that mean no compression at all?
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>>
>> No, that's not right either. The default should be Z_DEFAULT_COMPRESSION,
>> so we shouldn't actually see a difference in the default case. And it is
>> definitely compressing some. So I'm now puzzled by what you're seeing.
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>>
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> OK, I have got this worked out. I'll have a bug fix shortly.
So you are basically planning to switch to Z_BEST_SPEED instead of
Z_DEFAULT_COMPRESSION where needed for the default code path?
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Michael