Re: Add LZ4 compression in pg_dump

On 5/8/23 03:16, Tom Lane wrote:
> I wrote:
>> Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> writes:
>>> While testing this patch, I have triggered an error pointing out that
>>> the decompression path of LZ4 is broken for table data.  I can
>>> reproduce that with a dump of the regression database, as of:
>>> make installcheck
>>> pg_dump --format=d --file=dump_lz4 --compress=lz4 regression
> 
>> Ugh.  Reproduced here ... so we need an open item for this.
> 
> BTW, it seems to work with --format=c.
> 

The LZ4Stream_write() forgot to move the pointer to the next chunk, so
it was happily decompressing the initial chunk over and over. A bit
embarrassing oversight :-(

The custom format calls WriteDataToArchiveLZ4(), which was correct.

The attached patch fixes this for me.


regards

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