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@@ -330,9 +330,10 @@ PostgreSQL documentation
            machine-readable format that <application>pg_restore</application>
            can read. A directory format archive can be manipulated with
            standard Unix tools; for example, files in an uncompressed archive
-           can be compressed with the <application>gzip</application> tool.
-           This format is compressed by default and also supports parallel
-           dumps.
+           can be compressed with the <application>gzip</application> or
+           <application>lz4</application>tool.
+           This format is compressed by default using <literal>gzip</literal>
+           and also supports parallel dumps.
           </para>
          </listitem>
         </varlistentry>
@@ -654,7 +655,7 @@ PostgreSQL documentation
        <para>
         Specify the compression method and/or the compression level to use.
         The compression method can be set to <literal>gzip</literal> or
-        <literal>none</literal> for no compression.
+        <literal>lz4</literal> or <literal>none</literal> for no compression.
         A compression detail string can optionally be specified.  If the
         detail string is an integer, it specifies the compression level.
         Otherwise, it should be a comma-separated list of items, each of the
@@ -675,8 +676,8 @@ PostgreSQL documentation
         individual table-data segments, and the default is to compress using
         <literal>gzip</literal> at a moderate level. For plain text output,
         setting a nonzero compression level causes the entire output file to be compressed,
-        as though it had been fed through <application>gzip</application>; but the default
-        is not to compress.
+        as though it had been fed through <application>gzip</application> or
+        <application>lz4</application>; but the default is not to compress.
        </para>
        <para>
         The tar archive format currently does not support compression at all.
 
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ top_builddir = ../../..
 include $(top_builddir)/src/Makefile.global
 
 export GZIP_PROGRAM=$(GZIP)
+export LZ4
 export with_icu
 
 override CPPFLAGS := -I$(libpq_srcdir) $(CPPFLAGS)
@@ -26,6 +27,7 @@ OBJS = \
 	$(WIN32RES) \
 	compress_gzip.o \
 	compress_io.o \
+	compress_lz4.o \
 	compress_none.o \
 	dumputils.o \
 	parallel.o \
 
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@
  *	InitDiscoverCompressFileHandle tries to infer the compression by the
  *	filename suffix. If the suffix is not yet known then it tries to simply
  *	open the file and if it fails, it tries to open the same file with the .gz
- *	suffix.
+ *	suffix, and then again with the .lz4 suffix.
  *
  * IDENTIFICATION
  *	   src/bin/pg_dump/compress_io.c
@@ -67,6 +67,7 @@
 
 #include "compress_gzip.h"
 #include "compress_io.h"
+#include "compress_lz4.h"
 #include "compress_none.h"
 #include "pg_backup_utils.h"
 
@@ -93,6 +94,10 @@ supports_compression(const pg_compress_specification compression_spec)
 	if (algorithm == PG_COMPRESSION_GZIP)
 		supported = true;
 #endif
+#ifdef USE_LZ4
+	if (algorithm == PG_COMPRESSION_LZ4)
+		supported = true;
+#endif
 
 	if (!supported)
 		return psprintf("this build does not support compression with %s",
@@ -123,6 +128,8 @@ AllocateCompressor(const pg_compress_specification compression_spec,
 		InitCompressorNone(cs, compression_spec);
 	else if (compression_spec.algorithm == PG_COMPRESSION_GZIP)
 		InitCompressorGzip(cs, compression_spec);
+	else if (compression_spec.algorithm == PG_COMPRESSION_LZ4)
+		InitCompressorLZ4(cs, compression_spec);
 
 	return cs;
 }
@@ -187,6 +194,8 @@ InitCompressFileHandle(const pg_compress_specification compression_spec)
 		InitCompressFileHandleNone(CFH, compression_spec);
 	else if (compression_spec.algorithm == PG_COMPRESSION_GZIP)
 		InitCompressFileHandleGzip(CFH, compression_spec);
+	else if (compression_spec.algorithm == PG_COMPRESSION_LZ4)
+		InitCompressFileHandleLZ4(CFH, compression_spec);
 
 	return CFH;
 }
@@ -196,11 +205,11 @@ InitCompressFileHandle(const pg_compress_specification compression_spec)
  * be either "r" or "rb".
  *
  * If the file at 'path' contains the suffix of a supported compression method,
- * currently this includes only ".gz", then this compression will be used
+ * currently this includes ".gz" and ".lz4", then this compression will be used
  * throughout. Otherwise the compression will be inferred by iteratively trying
  * to open the file at 'path', first as is, then by appending known compression
  * suffixes. So if you pass "foo" as 'path', this will open either "foo" or
- * "foo.gz", trying in that order.
+ * "foo.gz" or "foo.lz4", trying in that order.
  *
  * On failure, return NULL with an error code in errno.
  */
@@ -238,6 +247,17 @@ InitDiscoverCompressFileHandle(const char *path, const char *mode)
 			if (exists)
 				compression_spec.algorithm = PG_COMPRESSION_GZIP;
 		}
+#endif
+#ifdef USE_LZ4
+		if (!exists)
+		{
+			free_keep_errno(fname);
+			fname = psprintf("%s.lz4", path);
+			exists = (stat(fname, &st) == 0);
+
+			if (exists)
+				compression_spec.algorithm = PG_COMPRESSION_LZ4;
+		}
 #endif
 	}