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

Junwang Zhao <zhjwpku@gmail.com>

From: Junwang Zhao <zhjwpku@gmail.com>
To: Sutou Kouhei <kou@clear-code.com>
Cc: nathandbossart@gmail.com, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2023-12-06T07:11:34Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Wed, Dec 6, 2023 at 2:19 PM Sutou Kouhei <kou@clear-code.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> In <CAEG8a3Jf7kPV3ez5OHu-pFGscKfVyd9KkubMF199etkfz=EPRg@mail.gmail.com>
>   "Re: Make COPY format extendable: Extract COPY TO format implementations" on Wed, 6 Dec 2023 11:18:35 +0800,
>   Junwang Zhao <zhjwpku@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > For the modern formats(parquet, orc, avro, etc.), will they be
> > implemented as extensions or in core?
>
> I think that they should be implemented as extensions
> because they will depend of external libraries and may not
> use C. For example, C++ will be used for Apache Parquet
> because the official Apache Parquet C++ implementation
> exists but the C implementation doesn't.
>
> (I can implement an extension for Apache Parquet after we
> complete this feature. I'll implement an extension for
> Apache Arrow with the official Apache Arrow C++
> implementation. And it's easy that we convert Apache Arrow
> data to Apache Parquet with the official Apache Parquet
> implementation.)
>
> > The patch looks good except for a pair of extra curly braces.
>
> Thanks for the review! I attach the v2 patch that removes
> extra curly braces for "if (isnull)".
>
For the extra curly braces, I mean the following code block in
CopyToFormatBinaryStart:

+ {        <-- I thought this is useless?
+ /* Generate header for a binary copy */
+ int32 tmp;
+
+ /* Signature */
+ CopySendData(cstate, BinarySignature, 11);
+ /* Flags field */
+ tmp = 0;
+ CopySendInt32(cstate, tmp);
+ /* No header extension */
+ tmp = 0;
+ CopySendInt32(cstate, tmp);
+ }

>
> Thanks,
> --
> kou



-- 
Regards
Junwang Zhao



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.