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		koolba on March 1, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: PGHoard – PostgreSQL backup and restore service fo... How’s the cpu usage for this when compressing? Are the libs C libraries? (ie native performance)

melor on March 2, 2019 [–]

CPU usage varies based the selected compression algorithm and level used. Snappy and LZMA area available now. Compression is native code. There are some newer interesting algorithms (zstd/lz4) that we are looking into adding.

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