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Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2026 20:28:50 +0200
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Subject: Re: pgsql: Change wal_compression=on to the first of zstd, lz4, pglz
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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On 8/12/26 17:55, Tom Lane wrote:
> Tomas Vondra <tomas@vondra.me> writes:
>> On 8/12/26 01:52, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> [ raised eyebrow... ]  I don't object to this change in master,
>>> but it seems pretty out of scope for v19 at this point.
> 
>> Yeah. The consensus in the discussion thread was it'd be good to do this
>> in 19, together with the TOAST compression default. I wasn't sure about
>> that, so I consulted with the RMT and the response was it's OK.
> 
> Ah.  The point about changing this along with the TOAST compression
> default does make sense.  Objection withdrawn ... but this needs
> to get into the v19 release notes beside the other change.
> 

Right. Naive question - what's the proper process to make that happen
for changes like this? Ping someone / RMT?

regards

-- 
Tomas Vondra