Skip text->binary conversion of unnecessary columns in contrib/file_fdw.

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

Commit: a36088bcfae85eeeb55e85c3f06c61cb2f0621c6
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 2012-07-12T20:26:59Z
Releases: 9.3.0
Skip text->binary conversion of unnecessary columns in contrib/file_fdw.

When reading from a text- or CSV-format file in file_fdw, the datatype
input routines can consume a significant fraction of the runtime.
Often, the query does not need all the columns, so we can get a useful
speed boost by skipping I/O conversion for unnecessary columns.

To support this, add a "convert_selectively" option to the core COPY code.
This is undocumented and not accessible from SQL (for now, anyway).

Etsuro Fujita, reviewed by KaiGai Kohei

Files

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contrib/file_fdw/file_fdw.c modified +144 −3
src/backend/commands/copy.c modified +53 −0