Re: Make COPY format extendable: Extract COPY TO format implementations

Sutou Kouhei <kou@clear-code.com>

From: Sutou Kouhei <kou@clear-code.com>
To: sawada.mshk@gmail.com
Cc: michael@paquier.xyz, david.g.johnston@gmail.com, tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us, zhjwpku@gmail.com, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2025-09-12T00:07:52Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Hi,

In <CAD21AoCfqD=f2ELqPxg62+_QADhHi_kJXCDMhAerBtvxudd-xQ@mail.gmail.com>
  "Re: Make COPY format extendable: Extract COPY TO format implementations" on Thu, 11 Sep 2025 13:41:26 -0700,
  Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com> wrote:

> I think we can use a local variable of CopyFormatOptions and memcpy it
> to the opts of the returned cstate.

It'll work too. Can we proceed this proposal with this
approach? Should we collect more opinions before we proceed?
If so, Could you add key people in this area to Cc to hear
their opinions?


Thanks,
-- 
kou



Commits

  1. Refactor Copy{From|To}GetRoutine() to use pass-by-reference argument.

  2. Refactor COPY FROM to use format callback functions.

  3. Refactor COPY TO to use format callback functions.

  4. Another try to fix BF failure introduced in commit ddd5f4f54a.

  5. Revert "Refactor CopyReadAttributes{CSV,Text}() to use a callback in COPY FROM"

  6. Improve COPY TO performance when server and client encodings match

  7. Simplify signature of CopyAttributeOutCSV() in copyto.c

  8. Revert "Refactor CopyAttributeOut{CSV,Text}() to use a callback in COPY TO"

  9. Refactor CopyAttributeOut{CSV,Text}() to use a callback in COPY TO

  10. Refactor CopyReadAttributes{CSV,Text}() to use a callback in COPY FROM

  11. Add progress reporting of skipped tuples during COPY FROM.

  12. pgbench: Add \syncpipeline

  13. meson: Make gzip and tar optional

  14. Export the external file reader used in COPY FROM as APIs.