Improve performance of binary COPY FROM through better buffering.

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

Commit: 0a0727ccfc5f4e2926623abe877bdc0b5bfd682e
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 2020-07-25T20:34:35Z
Releases: 14.0
Improve performance of binary COPY FROM through better buffering.

At least on Linux and macOS, fread() turns out to have far higher
per-call overhead than one could wish.  Reading 64KB of data at a time
and then parceling it out with our own memcpy logic makes binary COPY
from a file significantly faster --- around 30% in simple testing for
cases with narrow text columns (on Linux ... even more on macOS).

In binary COPY from frontend, there's no per-call fread(), and this
patch introduces an extra layer of memcpy'ing, but it still manages
to eke out a small win.  Apparently, the control-logic overhead in
CopyGetData() is enough to be worth avoiding for small fetches.

Bharath Rupireddy and Amit Langote, reviewed by Vignesh C,
cosmetic tweaks by me

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALj2ACU5Bz06HWLwqSzNMN=Gupoj6Rcn_QVC+k070V4em9wu=A@mail.gmail.com

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