Re: Compression of full-page-writes

From: Pavan Deolasee <pavan(dot)deolasee(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>, Rahila Syed <rahilasyed90(at)gmail(dot)com>, Rahila Syed <rahilasyed(dot)90(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Compression of full-page-writes
Date: 2014-06-11 11:05:01
Message-ID: CABOikdN6qsrxVJoufUf0KqJokFJjawkBix-0soHXTTVUVLjF9Q@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 4:19 PM, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

>
> IIUC even when we adopt only one algorithm, additional at least one bit is
> necessary to see whether this backup block is compressed or not.
>
> This flag is necessary only for backup block, so there is no need to use
> the header of each WAL record. What about just using the backup block
> header?
>
>
+1. We can also steal a few bits from ForkNumber field in the backup block
header if required.

Thanks,
Pavan

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