Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2022 01:14:41 -0500
From: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
To: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Cc: gkokolatos@pm.me, Rachel Heaton <rachelmheaton@gmail.com>,
	Greg Stark <stark@mit.edu>, pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Add LZ4 compression in pg_dump
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On Sat, Mar 26, 2022 at 02:57:50PM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> I have a question about 0002, actually.  What has led you to the
> conclusion that this code is dead and could be removed?

See 0001 and the manpage.

+               'pg_dump: compression is not supported by tar archive format');

When I submitted a patch to support zstd, I spent awhile trying to make
compression work with tar, but it's a significant effort and better done
separately.