Hi, This week - Finished writing common testing foundation that allows other services to be tested easily. For example: --let $test_library = lzma --source test_library.inc --let $test_library = lzo --source test_library.inc ... - Finished the first draft of the Snappy service. Snappy has a C++ api that is used by RocksDB, so we have two options: - Use the mangled C++ function names directly, and load them normally with dlopen. - Re-implement the C++ function from Snappy’s C exports. The mangled function names may vary across platforms, so we are going with the second option for now. - Implemented global status variables for the services. This lays the foundation for integration with the storage engines. - Finished a first draft of the auto logic for the --use-compression= switch. Next week - Need to review my refactoring and decide on next steps. Details of refactor: - Removed the service struct. - Removed the struct from sql/sql_plugin_services.ic. - Define an anonymous struct in sql/compression/<library>.cc. - Initialize the struct with dummy function pointers. - If the library is successfully loaded, replace them with pointers to the real functions. - Define wrapper functions that forward the call to the function pointers in the struct. - Continue replicating the implementation for other libraries. - Decide what to do when dynamic libraries have the versions suffixed to the .so file. For example, liblzma.so.5.2.4 is included with Ubuntu 20, but liblzma.so is not. The liblzma.so -> liblzma.so.5.2.4 symlink is only added after installing the liblzma-dev package. - Sync up with Robert to discuss further actions. Thanks, Kartik ​