On Fri, Mar 6, 2026 at 12:55 PM Nazir Bilal Yavuz <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi Manni!
>
> On Fri, 6 Mar 2026 at 21:13, Manni Wood <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> > When I ran `meson setup build --buildtype=debugoptimized` on both my x86
> machine and my arm machine, the response on both was:
> >
> > "External libraries
> > "  lz4                      : NO"
> >
> > However, I did not remove commit 34dfca2934 from any of my Postgres
> builds; I left that commit in place.
> >
> > Let me know if that helps!
>
> That definitely helps, thanks! If you have a chance, could you also
> run the benchmark with LZ4 enabled? I expect you may see significantly
> better performance, similar to what I observed.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Nazir Bilal Yavuz
> Microsoft
>

Hi, Nazir.

Well, golly! Look at these numbers. Old master with no lz4, your v11 patch
with no lz4, and then your v11 patch with lz4 compiled in.

(Aside: I assume everything is good for my lz4 build after installing the
lz4 dev library and seeing this with my meson config:

"  External libraries
"    lz4                      : YES 1.9.4"

and this from the db itself:

$ ./bin/psql -U mwood -d postgres -c 'show default_toast_compression'
 default_toast_compression
---------------------------
 lz4
)

x86 NARROW old master
TXT :                 25909.060500 ms
CSV :                 28137.591250 ms
TXT with 1/3 escapes: 27794.177000 ms
CSV with 1/3 quotes:  34541.704750 ms

x86 NARROW v11
TXT :                 27212.945750 ms  -5.032545% regression
CSV :                 26985.971250 ms  4.092817% improvement
TXT with 1/3 escapes: 27216.510000 ms  2.078374% improvement
CSV with 1/3 quotes:  32817.267500 ms  4.992334% improvement

x86 NARROW v11 lz4
TXT :                 26471.776500 ms  -2.171889% regression
CSV :                 25607.026250 ms  8.993538% improvement
TXT with 1/3 escapes: 28628.729750 ms  -3.002617% regression
CSV with 1/3 quotes:  34729.006750 ms  -0.542249% regression


x86 WIDE old master
TXT :                 28778.426500 ms
CSV :                 35671.908000 ms
TXT with 1/3 escapes: 32441.549750 ms
CSV with 1/3 quotes:  47024.416000 ms

x86 WIDE v11
TXT :                 22571.305750 ms  21.568659% improvement
CSV :                 22711.524750 ms  36.332184% improvement
TXT with 1/3 escapes: 29236.453000 ms  9.879604% improvement
CSV with 1/3 quotes:  40022.110750 ms  14.890786% improvement

x86 WIDE v11 lz4
TXT :                 8032.912750 ms  72.087033% improvement
CSV :                 8047.098000 ms  77.441358% improvement
TXT with 1/3 escapes: 15428.139500 ms  52.443272% improvement
CSV with 1/3 quotes:  27517.084500 ms  41.483410% improvement



arm NARROW old master
TXT :                 10997.568250 ms
CSV :                 10797.549000 ms
TXT with 1/3 escapes: 10299.047000 ms
CSV with 1/3 quotes:  12559.385750 ms

arm NARROW v11
TXT :                 10340.966250 ms  5.970429% improvement
CSV :                 10224.399500 ms  5.308144% improvement
TXT with 1/3 escapes: 10438.216750 ms  -1.351288% regression
CSV with 1/3 quotes:  11865.934000 ms  5.521383% improvement

arm NARROW v11 lz4
TXT :                 9783.737000 ms  11.037270% improvement
CSV :                 10122.890750 ms  6.248254% improvement
TXT with 1/3 escapes: 10298.780250 ms  0.002590% improvement
CSV with 1/3 quotes:  11738.992250 ms  6.532115% improvement


arm WIDE old master
TXT :                 11825.771250 ms
CSV :                 13907.074000 ms
TXT with 1/3 escapes: 13430.691250 ms
CSV with 1/3 quotes:  17557.954500 ms

arm WIDE v11
TXT :                 9001.442250 ms  23.882831% improvement
CSV :                 8940.928750 ms  35.709490% improvement
TXT with 1/3 escapes: 12049.668500 ms  10.282589% improvement
CSV with 1/3 quotes:  15277.843250 ms  12.986201% improvement

arm WIDE v11 lz4
TXT :                 3186.825500 ms  73.051859% improvement
CSV :                 3142.526500 ms  77.403396% improvement
TXT with 1/3 escapes: 6180.176000 ms  53.984677% improvement
CSV with 1/3 quotes:  9460.505500 ms  46.118407% improvement

Cheers,

-Manni

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