Re: [HACKERS] Making pg_standby compression-friendly

2008-10-27 Thread Charles Duffy
Koichi Suzuki wrote: As Heikki pointed out, the issue is not to decompress the compressed WAL, but also how we can keep archive log still compressed after it is handled by pg_standby. pg_standby makes a *copy* of the segment from the archive, and need only ensure that the copy is

Re: [HACKERS] Making pg_standby compression-friendly

2008-10-24 Thread Charles Duffy
In the absence of further feedback from 'yall (and in the presence of some positive results from internal QA), I'm adding the posted patch as-is to the 2008-11 CommitFest queue. That said, any such additional feedback would be gratefully appreciated. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list

Re: [HACKERS] Making pg_standby compression-friendly

2008-10-23 Thread Charles Duffy
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 1:15 AM, Heikki Linnakangas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Charles Duffy wrote: I'm interested in compressing archived WAL segments in an environment set up for PITR in the interests of reducing both network traffic and storage requirements. However, pg_standby presently

[HACKERS] Making pg_standby compression-friendly

2008-10-22 Thread Charles Duffy
Howdy, all. I'm interested in compressing archived WAL segments in an environment set up for PITR in the interests of reducing both network traffic and storage requirements. However, pg_standby presently checks file sizes, requiring that an archive segment be exactly the right size to be

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] putting CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS in qsort_comparetup()

2006-07-28 Thread Charles Duffy
. As for the potential for memory leaks - thinking about it. Thanks, Charles Duffy. Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The merge sort is here: http://sourceware.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/libc/stdlib/msort.c?rev=1.21content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markupcvsroot=glibc It uses alloca, so we're good