On Fri, Dec 26, 2014 at 12:31 PM, Michael Paquier <michael.paqu...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 25, 2014 at 10:10 PM, Michael Paquier > <michael.paqu...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 9:03 PM, Michael Paquier >> <michael.paqu...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Returning only a boolean is fine for me (that's what my first patch >>> did), especially if we add at some point hooks for compression and >>> decompression calls. >> Here is a patch rebased on current HEAD (60838df) for the core feature >> with the APIs of pglz using booleans as return values. > After the revert of 1st patch moving pglz to src/common, I have > reworked both patches, resulting in the attached. > > For pglz, the dependency to varlena has been removed to make the code > able to run independently on both frontend and backend sides. In order > to do that the APIs of pglz_compress and pglz_decompress have been > changed a bit: > - pglz_compress returns the number of bytes compressed. > - pglz_decompress takes as additional argument the compressed length > of the buffer, and returns the number of bytes decompressed instead of > a simple boolean for consistency with the compression API. > PGLZ_Header is not modified to keep the on-disk format intact.
pglz_compress() and pglz_decompress() still use PGLZ_Header, so the frontend which uses those functions needs to handle PGLZ_Header. But it basically should be handled via the varlena macros. That is, the frontend still seems to need to understand the varlena datatype. I think we should avoid that. Thought? Regards, -- Fujii Masao -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers